Description

Integra™, a game-changer in the data center industry respecting modular data centers, power systems, cooling infrastructure, and mission-critical construction seeks an Assistant General Counsel.  The ideal candidate has a balanced background in corporate commercial business matters, large-scale digital infrastructure projects involving construction, engineering, and real estate development and possess strong negotiation and full project management and lifecycle administration skills.

• The Assistant General Counsel reports to and supports the company’s General Counsel and will work directly with cross-functional executive and team leaders across corporate, construction, and product manufacturing business lines.
• The Assistant General Counsel will be responsible for drafting, reviewing, and revising a variety of different legal documents ranging from commercial business and real estate transactions, construction services, product materials supply contracts, infrastructure and major equipment leases and purchase agreements.  Additional other legal and non-legal tasks and responsibilities will be assigned to the Assistant General Counsel based on abilities and changing company needs.
• Advise on contract administration, potential claims, and legal strategies related to construction or design issues, including forensic construction scheduling.
• Provide legal guidance on procurement processes, including RFI/RFQ/RFP development and contract drafting.
• Ability to understand business and compliance issues and opportunities quickly and accurately, then creating and deploying appropriate action plans.
• Possess a strong understanding of both legal and business confidentiality considerations.
• Experience in some of the following areas is essential: corporate matters and commercial, construction, infrastructure and real estate transactions.
• Experience in labor and employment law is preferred but not required.

Requirements

Required Qualifications: 

• Undergraduate degree, and a Juris Doctorate degree from an ABA accredited law school and is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.
• At least 5-7 years’ experience working for a private law firm or as an in-house counsel.
• A general understanding of general corporate law, commercial law, construction law, real estate law, and utilities law.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and administering internal corporate programs.
• Demonstrated ability to apply legal and risk analysis to factual circumstances and exercise sound judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to both convey clear and accurate legal advice and be solution-oriented to assist clients in achieving business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to apply and integrate organizational goals and objectives in work product and procedures.
• Demonstrated legal writing skills in describing key facts, analyzing legal issues and presenting advice clearly and succinctly.
• Ability to manage a large workload of varying complexity efficiently and independently.
• Ability to provide strategic and day-to-day direction to colleagues at all levels, and ability to work genially and productively with such colleagues.
• Ability to respond to the priorities of business leaders and external customers, and experience in doing so.
• Ability to think, plan, organize and implement strategically and experience in doing so.
• Ability to balance and differentiate between legal concerns and business concerns.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills:

• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with people at all levels within and outside of the organization.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing to people at all levels within and outside of the organization on potentially sensitive or highly charged issues sufficient to exchange information, work cooperatively, facilitate understanding, and persuade and influence others.
• Excellent verbal and written communications, negotiation, and organizational skills.

 Technical Skills: 

• Ability to use common office software for developing and exchanging electronic correspondence (e.g., Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive); 
• Procore a plus.

*Works in an office environment.  Requires occasionally performing activities including, but not limited to, bending, stooping, grasping, reaching, twisting, turning and/or lifting.