Position Summary:
We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced (Senior) Legal professional to join our Legal Affairs team.
This role is responsible for providing legal support across the organization, including contract management, dispute resolution, and internal legal consultation.
The ideal candidate will have strong communication and negotiation skills, and be able to work both independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Draft, review, and negotiate legal documents and contracts in both Chinese and English with precision and efficiency.
2. Explain clearly contractual rights, obligations, and potential legal risks to internal stakeholders.
3. Support dispute resolution processes, including participating in settlement negotiations and providing litigation assistance.
4. Manage and coordinate with external law firms on outsourced legal matters to ensure effective collaboration and outcomes.
5. Provide legal advice and conduct thorough risk assessments on a wide range of corporate legal issues.
6. Develop and deliver internal legal training sessions to promote legal awareness and compliance across all departments.
The person will be responsible for development of the project that will include negotiation of PPA, GSA, EPC, O&M, CSA, interconnect agreement and any other project document.
The person will be responsible for co-ordinating with the EPC contractors, Owners Engineers, various government agencies, lenders, lenders technical advisors, new investors , and insurance advisors etc.
The person will be responsible for ensuring that the EPC Contractor executes the EPC Contract construction program on time, within budget, in a safe and high quality manner commensurate with the requirements of the EPC Contract, Power Purchase Agreement and good industry practice. The engineer is responsible for facilitating the timely and accurate delivery of interfaces relevant to the EPC Contract scope.
The person will be responsible for preparation of RFP documents for O&M contractor selection process, negotiation of O&M Contracts etc.
Manage the related files/contracts/documents:
1. The person has to be familiar with and understand the interplay between all project contracts and agreements that are related to construction activities with the objective of maximizing benefits from these contracts and ensuring compliance with Project Company’s obligations. The main Contracts are EPC Contract , Power Purchase Agreement, Gas Supply agreement.
2. Other related Contracts may include, but are not limited to:
• O&M Agreements.
• Owner’s Engineer Agreement.
• Transmission / interconnection agreement
• Other services, material or equipment supply contracts related to the construction of the power plant
• Financing documents
3. The person has to be familiar with the rules and regulations related to construction activities in order to ensure compliance with these rules and regulations. For example:
• Grid Codes.
• Environmental Regulations.
• Labor law.
• Industrial regulations requiring licensing for equipment or personnel.
• Industrial regulations requiring special design of certain equipment.
• International quality codes & standards
4. The person will develop adequate communication protocol between the company and EPC Contractor, authorities, Owner’s Engineer, Lender’s Engineer and suppliers among others. This protocol should specify the following:
• Signature authority of official letters and correspondence.
• Standardized numbering system of official correspondence.
• Distribution lists of incoming and outgoing correspondence.
• Storage and backup of all communications in bilingual working environment.