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Essential Energy is an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry's future.
About the role
As a Lawyer at Essential Energy, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality legal advice and managing legal matters that support the organisation's strategic and operational objectives. You will provide timely, commercially focused legal guidance across a range of areas, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements and mitigating legal risks.
Working closely with the Head of Legal and Senior Lawyers, you will assist in overseeing external legal services and collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure effective legal processes and governance. Your expertise will help shape policies, manage litigation risks, deliver strategic projects and maintain strong relationships with both internal teams and external legal providers, contributing to the organisation's success and integrity.
This is a 12 month fixed term opportunity and can be based anywhere within Essential Energy's operational footprint.
About You
You are a proactive and solutions-focused legal professional who thrives in a dynamic environment. You demonstrate integrity, sound judgment, and a commitment to delivering practical, commercially astute advice. With strong interpersonal skills, you build trusted relationships and communicate complex legal concepts in a clear and engaging way. You are highly organised, adaptable, and motivated to contribute to a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
About Your Skills
* You bring strong analytical and problem-solving skills, enabling you to identify legal risks and deliver effective solutions.
* You excel in written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence and negotiate confidently.
* You demonstrate exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, fostering productive relationships across all levels of the organisation.
* You are adept at managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes within tight timeframes.
* You are proficient in using legal research tools, technology and business systems relevant to legal practice.
Required Qualifications
* Bachelor Degree in Law and a current practising certificate entitling you to practise as a solicitor in NSW.
Desired Experience
* Experience working as a legal professional in a large corporate organisation.
* Knowledge of laws relevant to the energy or utility sector.
* Experience providing legal advice within a State-Owned Corporation environment.
* Strong understanding of probity and its application in large organisations.
* General commercial legal experience, particularly in highly regulated industries.
* Demonstrated ability to assess the organisational impact of legal decisions.
* Current Driver's Licence.
Why Essential Energy
We offer competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience and 16.5% superannuation.
Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits including relocation assistance, health and wellbeing programs and various discounts through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Optus, JB HI FI, Mildura Health Fund and nib. For more information on our benefits, please visit employee benefits page.
We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.
Working with a regionally focused organisation requires a diverse mindset. Wellbeing, development and delivering tangible value are all core to our purpose as we connect and power the regional and rural communities of NSW and parts of southern QLD.
Joining Essential Energy means you are the type of person where camaraderie, supporting your colleagues and balance in your life are all important.
Our culture is diverse, respectful and one where you have a voice which is heard. We know we can only be successful in supporting the customers who depend on us if we work together.
For further information please review PD NET0689 and contact Melissa Bice – Head of Legal on 0414 780 478.
Applications close on Monday 23 March 2025 at 11:55pm
Passionate people. Global thinking. Regional heart.
Building a better energy future.
Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.
At Essential Energy, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply to Essential Energy (including alternate formats of application forms or alternate ways for accessibility). To discuss adjustment requirements, please contact careers@essentialenergy.com.au or call us on 1800 255 777.
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