Corporate Counsel, E-Storage Manufacturing

Location: Onsite Shelbyville, Kentucky when the office is ready by the end of 2024 or start of 2025

Overview

We are seeking an experienced in-house lawyer to join our legal team. The ideal candidate will be a generalist and have experience supporting manufacturing operations for multinationals. We are looking for a confident self-starter with strong interpersonal organizational and leadership skills and a demonstrated ability to effectively provide sound legal advice, exercise good business judgment, and work with senior management, outside counsel and vendors. This is a full-time position. This role involves supporting the utility scale battery energy storage manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities:

The candidate will act as the lead in-house counsel supporting our new US battery energy storage manufacturing facilities and operations. In particular, the candidate will:

● Advise and assist on commercial transactions for the manufacturing business, including real estate and construction contracts, vendor agreements and supply chain related agreements

● Manage corporate housekeeping for the US battery energy storage manufacturing subsidiary

● Work closely with internal and external trade compliance professionals to ensure that components and raw materials can be timely imported and that issues that arise are effectively addressed

● Work with internal regulatory and EHS compliance teams to develop legal policies, processes and procedures for the US manufacturing business

● Provide proactive, timely and effective legal advice and analysis relating to risks faced by the business

● Coordinate and supervise outside counsel on an as-needed basis and with a view to balancing legal costs with business goals.

● Ensure that all activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with our policies, code and procedures

Qualifications and Experience:

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

● A J.D. from a reputable law school and strong academic credentials, generally

● Licensed to practice law in the State of Kentucky or in another US jurisdiction with the ability to become licensed in Kentucky

● 7 years of legal experience, with a combination of large law firm and in-house experience preferred.

● Experience advising manufacturing businesses, with a general corporate transactional background. Supply chain, Labor and employment, real estate and/or construction experience is a plus.

● Possess a demonstrated ability to effectively provide sound legal advice, exercise good business judgment, and work with senior management, outside counsel and state and local officials

● Have a team-first attitude with excellent communication skills

● Be a leader, i.e. take ownership of matters, direct outside counsel, and drive innovation within the legal department and in concert with commercial leaders to achieve the company’s goals

● Be willing to travel on occasion to meet legal and business need