Lead Legal Counsel – Supply Chain​/Commercial contracts

Lead Legal Counsel – Supply Chain/Commercial contracts

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Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.

Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.

Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.

Metrea is looking for an experienced qualified attorney (Senior Counsel) to be principally based out of either our California office currently located in Temecula or in our Washington D.C. office with the expectation of travel and support of a global enterprise.

The candidate for this position will have significant experience in aviation supply chain contracts, legal risks and issues including the negotiation, drafting, and closing of a wide variety of vendor and other commercial contracts and subcontracts. This is a new role within the company with the expectation that a Supply Chain and Commercial contracts team will be built out overtime with additional lawyers and contract managers and administrators as needed.

The Senior Counsel will be expected to work closely with the Head of Supply Chain to identify legal and contract risks and needs as well as support global operations for the enterprise and the supply chain. Broad general experience with all types of aviation and commercial contracts and subcontracts, related intellectual property issues including protection of enterprise IP as well as licenses and assignments, and assessment of possible litigation risks and strategies related to this work.

The candidate will also ideally have a general understanding of and interest in the use of consultants and service providers and potential labor and litigation issues. Experience supporting companies focused on cutting edge technologies including software development, digital innovation, and infrastructure is important.

The Senior Counsel will work with our experienced and talented Supply Chain and Global Logistics team alongside various Metrea Capability Areas. Senior Counsel will need to learn the various work streams and requirements for the entire global enterprise. Depending on the workload and growth, it is expected that this role will involve building out a team and working with the Head of Contracts regarding related contract personnel.

Based out of California or the Washington D.C. office, the hybrid role will likely require international travel as well as work with a wide variety of team members, banks, lawyers, and various governments to address all of the legal issues that arise from a global enterprise.

Additionally, as a Senior Counsel, there will be a wide variety of additional legal support that may be required in litigation, merger and acquisitions, as well as various types of transactions. Support for a wide variety of commercial transactions and contracts may be required.

The Metrea LCC team is small, agile, and responsive, which literally requires going wherever the enterprise needs support and guidance. Diverse projects and issues will sometimes require work on areas of law that are not always in the job description, but which make for a well‑rounded, deeply experienced team of lawyers.

Being comfortable with multiple shifting, sometimes competing, priorities is fundamental within the LCC team. This is also a team which looks to support each other through…