Senior Corporate Lawyer - Environment & Lands

Snowy Hydro Careers • Walsh Bay, NSW, AU • 1w ago

About Snowy:

Snowy Hydro is a dynamic, integrated energy business that has been providing on-demand, reliable energy to Australia for generations. Snowy Hydro owns and operates a powerful combination of generation assets, including the iconic Snowy Hydro-electric Scheme, gas and diesel electricity generating plants, and contracted wind and solar energy in the National Electricity Market. We also provide electricity and gas to over 1.5 million retail customers through our retail brands Red Energy and Lumo Energy. Snowy 2.0, currently under construction, is Australia's largest committed renewable energy project. This nation-building project will provide on-demand energy and large-scale storage for many generations to come.

About the position:

Snowy Hydro is looking for a Senior Corporate Lawyer to lead all legal advice for environment and planning issues for Snowy’s major projects (Snowy 2.0 and Hunter Power Project) and also “BAU” activities associated with the operation of the existing Snowy Hydro-electric scheme and our gas and diesel power stations in NSW, Victoria and South Australia. This role will require the applicant to handle high risk and complex matters with minimal supervision. As such, we are are looking for an applicant with broader legal experience and excellent stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Providing legal advice and strategic guidance on a broad range of environment, planning and land matters often of a complex and bespoke nature.
Providing legal advice and support for responses to environmental incidents and compliance issues.
Management of external legal spend.
Building capability within the business.

About the location:

This role is based in Sydney.

About you:

You have a Bachelor of Law and a current practising certificate.
Your core skill set will be having significant experience (10+ years) working autonomously at a senior level in environment and planning law, with experience managing land tenure issues also highly desirable.
Your experience should principally be in the NSW and Federal environment protection and planning regimes, with knowledge of the Victorian and South Australia regimes also highly desirable.
Ideally your experience will include the process for major environmental assessments and the issues encountered by large infrastructure and engineering businesses and projects;
Incident and crisis management experience is essential.
You are autonomous, nimble and flexible in your approach to advising in an in-house context.

About our workforce:

Diversity and inclusion is important to us:

Snowy Hydro has a culture of decency and inclusion, with a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people and a supportive environment to ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can succeed. At Snowy Hydro, we recognise that we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each individual brings, and we believe in providing an environment that allows that uniqueness to thrive.

Snowy Hydro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for a role with Snowy Hydro and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an email with your request to the Snowy Hydro recruitment team at [email protected]

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