As a key member of the legal team reporting to the Head of Legal, you will support the Head of Legal and work alongside other members of the legal team, to support on legal and transactional aspects relating to the Company and its investments.
* Assisting the Head of Legal with all legal matters to ensure the provision of strategic, business specific, legal, governance, compliance and regulatory advice, on all Company, project, operational and transactional matters.
* Assisting the Head of Legal and leading on general corporate/commercial, and commercial contract advice and the identification and management of legal risks to the business and to its senior management, directors and shareholders.
* Drafting bespoke agreements and the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, consultancy agreements, non-disclosure agreements and other agreements, as required.
* Involvement and where relevant, responsibility, for corporate, contracting, financing and other key aspects of UK offshore wind and renewable energy projects.
* Monitoring and advising on regulatory developments within the Energy sector.
* Involvement in legal aspects of UK and European energy related M&A transactions.
* Assisting with company secretarial duties and ensuring good governance and compliance with all regulatory aspects.
* Researching and evaluating risk factors regarding business decisions and operations.
Essential Qualifications
* Highly motivated, ambitious and a commercially minded team player.
* Excellent technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
* Newly qualified solicitor to 2 years post-qualification legal practice experience (law firm or in-house).
* An understanding of relevant Scottish, English and European legislation.
Desirable Qualifications
* Experience of the renewable energy sector and/or project work.
Core Competencies
* Effective Communication
* Trust & Integrity
* Team Orientated
* Decisive
* Strategic Vision
* Adaptable
* Commercial/Business Awareness
Red Rock Renewables is an investor, owner, operator and developer of renewable energy projects. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, our growing team are passionate about generating clean energy and supporting the UK and Europe's net zero ambitions.
Our current portfolio includes five part or fully owned wind farm projects, each at different lifecycle stages. Our operational wind farms - Afton (100% equity), Beatrice (25%) and Överturingen (50%) - have an installed capacity of 320 MW (RRPL proportion), while our development projects - Benbrack onshore wind farm in the South West of Scotland (100%) and Inch Cape offshore wind farm off the East Coast (50%) - will deliver an additional 570 MW. We are committed to long term investment in the Scottish and UK market, onshore and offshore wind sectors in particular, and have strong growth ambitions to expand into the wider European market and other sustainable energy technologies.
We are actively pursuing acquisition and development opportunities, including the offshore wind leasing rounds. Our Edinburgh headquarters puts us at the heart of the UK industry, while our team's expertise and experience working on some of the world's largest energy infrastructure projects allows us a unique opportunity to consider a variety of different opportunities and we welcome candidates to join us on this journey.
Red Rock Renewables was established in 2016 when SDIC Power, a global power generation company headquartered in Beijing, China acquired Repsol's UK wind portfolio. For more information on Red Rock Renewables and what it's like to work with us, visit https://www.redrockrenewables.com/.
The chance to work amongst a friendly, dedicated, sociable team and benefit from social, health and wellbeing initiatives. We are committed to providing ongoing training opportunities for all staff and invest in allowing you to reach your career goals. Through implementation of our hybrid working policy, we are committed to supporting a positive work-life balance for our employees whilst also maintaining valuable face time in the office. We're committed to achieving an equal gender balance and greater representation of all ethnic groups, both in our company and within the renewables industry. Diversity and inclusivity are central to our strength as a team as well as our culture as a business.
A competitive salary and annual bonus along with a range of benefits including, family medical care, holiday purchase scheme, 10% non-contributory pension, life assurance, income protection and electric car scheme.
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