Legal Counsel/Syndikusrechtsanwalt (m/w/d)

Standardkessel Baumgarte GmbH is a company of JFE Engineering Corporation, Japan.

The companies of the Standardkessel Baumgarte Group take on the engineering, planning and realization of power plants and component deliveries for their domestic and foreign customers worldwide as general contractors or as component suppliers.

To strengthen our small, powerful legal department at the headquarters of the company in Mülheim an der Ruhr, we are looking for a

Legal Counsel / Syndikusrechtsanwalt m/f/d

Your tasks

As an in-house lawyer, you will undertake and be responsible for the wide range of legal tasks that arise in the group of companies during the realization of power plant projects. These are primarily tasks from the following areas:

• Drafting and negotiating various contract forms together with commercials and engineers - with a focus on construction law and contracts for work and services
• Legal support of project teams during contract execution
• Management of construction disputes, collaborating with external law firms
• Risk management and insurance solutions
• Legal advice in various fields of law

Your profile

As a lawyer, you should preferably have experience in construction and works contract law, preferably gained in plant construction or in international energy and infrastructure projects. However, we also give qualified and interested young professionals a chance. What is important to us is your enthusiasm for the job as in-house counsel in the international plant construction business. We will give you the opportunity to be trained by experienced colleagues and to take on responsibility quickly. The aim is to gradually give you a range of tasks to work independently in your own field of activities.

Your interest in finding the best possible solution to legal problems should include interdisciplinary cooperation with engineers and business people to achieve jointly the best project success.

You have the following qualifications:

• Completed 1st state law exam and 2^nd state law exam in Germany with a minimum grade of "Satisfactory" (“Befriedigend”) or a comparable legal qualification in UK or US (bar exam).
• Enjoy developing practical solutions at a high legal level
• Strong commercial mindset and keen interest in technical matters
• Team player in a project set-up
• Strong communication and organizational skills, initiative, flexibility, curiosity, ability to work under pressure and willingness to travel on business
• Fluency in English and German written and spoken is a must

Have we aroused your interest in this challenge? Then please send us your detailed application documents with details of your expected income and earliest possible starting date.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Standardkessel Baumgarte GmbH

Human Resources Department

Frau Stefanie Maier

Wissollstr. 19

45478 Mülheim an der Ruhr

Phone +49 208 20768 453

bewerbungen@standardkessel.de