Senior Legal Counsel - Front End Projects, Commercial and Operations

Worldwide, energy asset owners choose CB&I Asset Solutions as their asset management partner, confident in our ability to deliver tailored, value driven asset management solutions.

Our commitment is simple but powerful: to deliver value to our customers through safe, effective and efficient operations, maintenance, wells and decommissioning solutions, specializing in late life energy assets.

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JOB TITLE: SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL - FRONT END PROJECTS, COMMERCIAL AND OPERATIONS

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This is a critical senior legal position, responsible for providing strategic commercial and operational legal support across all activities. It adds value by shaping strong, competitive bids; securing contracts that balance opportunity with disciplined risk allocation; and ensuring the business enters each project with clarity, protection, and commercial advantage. Once projects move into execution, the role safeguards value through proactive claims management, early dispute avoidance, and tight control of contractual obligations, variations, and entitlements.
  
  By partnering closely with BD, Commercial, Operations, Finance, and HSE, this role strengthens decision-making, accelerates delivery, and reduces exposure to costly disputes or operational disruption.
• Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, USA, CB&I Storage Solutions is the world’s leading designer and builder of industrial storage products and facilities.
• CB&I has recently bolstered its global offerings with the acquisition of Asset Solutions. Headquartered in Aberdeen, UK, CB&I Asset Solutions operates globally across brownfield projects and operations, greenfield projects through concept, feasibility and front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies, as well as a range of operations, maintenance, and engineering services training, competency, well engineering, asset management, and duty-holder roles and decommissioning, for onshore and offshore projects.
• CB&I has global expertise and strategically located operations to provide engineering, procurement, and construction solutions for our customers’ most complex energy projects around the globe.
• This position is an individual contributor role within CB&I’s dynamic legal group located across the USA, UK, and the UAE. It will serve as a strategic partner to various functions across our global organization (e.g., Operations, Engineering, Commercial, Supply Chain, BD, Compliance, Legal, HR, IT, etc.) and will have significant responsibilities and exposure to leadership.
• Legal support for bids and Tenders.
• Business partner with BD and Commercial to structure competitive (compliant) commercial positions.
• Attend project kick-off and monthly contract review meetings.
• Coordinate with Finance, Tax, HSE, Operations, and Engineering to ensure contract terms reflect operational reality.
• Advise on contractual rights, remedies, notices, termination options, and enforcement strategies.
• Support commercial teams with interpretation, analysis, and drafting of qualifications for clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Ensure project teams understand contractual obligations, deliverables, milestones, and risk positions.
• Ensure all agreements reflect mandatory local legal requirements, regulatory constraints, and market-specific terms.
• Advise on governing law, dispute-resolution mechanisms, and enforce ability challenges in high-risk or low-predictability legal systems.
• Manage contract approval workflows to ensure compliance with internal policies, delegation of authority, and escalation protocols.
• Maintain and update contracting templates, fallback positions, and negotiation playbooks.
• Partner with Finance, Tax, HR, Commercial and Business Development to ensure contracts…