Senior Legal Counsel

John Holland is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel based in Brisbane, Australia, to provide legal support for a Queensland project. The role involves advising on commercial arrangements, drafting contracts, and resolving disputes. Candidates must have a law degree and a current Australian Practicing Certificate, along with significant experience in construction law. The company values diversity and offers competitive remuneration and employee benefits.
About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do. We’ve always known at its heart infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good.

Are you up for the challenge?

We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our legal function and provide support to a Queensland based project. The position will be based in our Brisbane office with site travel as required.

This role will see you assisting the project in ensuring that John Holland’s rights and obligations are protected, and its operations are conducted within the limits prescribed by law.

About the Role
• Provide independent legal advice and recommendations to John Holland across the project to ensure that commercial arrangements and risk management is acceptable, particularly with reference to John Holland’s procedures and authority levels, and applicable legislation
• Advise John Holland on its rights and obligations pursuant to relevant legislation and contracts
• Draft and review contractual notices upstream and downstream to protect John Holland’s rights and obligations
• Provide legal advice and support in the resolution of differences and disputes
• Interact professionally with client, external vendors, subcontractors, and other stakeholders as required
• Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, reporting, systems, and procedures

About You

This position will require you to hold Graduate qualifications in Law, as well as a current Australian Practicing Certificate.

You will have significant experience in project delivery and back-end construction law.

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

We are committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, women, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and people who identify as LGBTI+.

What’s in it for you when you join John Holland?

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From industry-leading leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We offer:

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice packaging options available.

Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with superannuation and up to an extra 18 weeks of superannuation paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two additional John Holland Days to prioritise health and wellbeing.

Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.

Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, and technical and leadership training and development opportunities.

Inclusion and diversity is part of how we work and do what we do at John Holland. Our active commitment to being an employer of choice is evident in the delivery of our Gender Equality Strategic Plan supported by our Pride, Celebrate Women, RAP and Grow networks.

Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.