Senior Legal Counsel – Operations

With various mining projects across Australia and the world, this mining company continues to outperform with a strong long term strategy and impressive executive leadership team. A strong focus on ESG, a diverse workforce and a fantastic employee recognition program make this anything but your traditional mining company. 

About the role:
Working in an effective legal function you will work closely with the General Counsel, executive and site leadership across a broad mix of work, focussed on supporting the company’s existing (and future) Australian operations, including:

• providing legal advice on planning and approval matters for new operations or expansions/modifications to existing site operations;
• providing legal advice on environmental law issues;
• providing legal advice on mining and exploration related tenure in addition to real property matters;
• providing legal advice on native title and cultural heritage matters;
• providing legal advice on health and safety matters;
• coordinating and managing expert external counsel in the areas of health and safety, planning and approval, environment, mining tenure, real property, native title and cultural heritage matters; and
• management of site-based litigation where required. 

Skills/Experience:
To be considered for this role you will have: 

• 8-12 years’ PAE projects, energy & resources or planning & environment experience;
• exposure to mining/resources, infrastructure or heavy industry will be highly regarded;
• exposure to in-house is preferred including secondment experience; and
• a commercial approach and good communication skills with the ability to build relationships across the business.  

Benefits:  

Awaiting you is:

• an attractive salary plus bonus;
• flexibility including work from home once a week;
• experienced and impressive senior legal and executive team to work closely with both in Australia and internationally;
• exposure across all aspects of the legal function; and
• a progressive workplace and legal team. 

Apply now:  

Click APPLY or contact Peter Liaw at Peppercorn Recruitment on 0422 805 803 or email peter@peppercornrecruitment.com.au, quoting reference number 3751664. Please submit your resume in Word format only.

Peppercorn Recruitment has been exclusively retained to recruit this role. All third party applications will be forwarded to Peppercorn Recruitment for consideration in the process.