Senior Legal Counsel - Disputes and ME Projects

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• This is a critical senior legal position, responsible for providing strategic, commercial, and operational management of all disputes, claims, and litigation affecting the global AS business ensuring issues are resolved efficiently, risks are mitigated early, and outcomes align with business objectives.
• 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.
• Partnering with various functions to manage risk, assess legal, commercial, and reputational exposure; recommend / align strategy, settlement options, and escalation pathways.
• Identify root causes of disputes and partner with business functions to implement preventative controls.
• Select, instruct, and manage external counsel, ensuring efficient case handling, cost control, and alignment with business priorities.
• Lead or support fact-finding, document review, and witness preparation to support internal and external investigations.
• Support responses to regulatory inquiries, enforcement actions, and government-driven disputes.
• Create and maintain global dispute registers, reporting dashboards, and governance frameworks to ensure visibility and control.
• Provide regular structured updates on material disputes, exposures, and strategic recommendations.
• Lead or support settlement discussions, mediations, and alternative dispute resolution processes.
• Oversee preservation, collection, and disclosure processes, ensuring compliance with legal and procedural requirements (some drafting and training may be required to implement).
• Train business teams on dispute avoidance, escalation protocols, and contractual risk awareness.
• 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 all agreements reflect mandatory local legal requirements, regulatory constraints, and market-specific terms.
• Advise on governing law, dispute-resolution mechanisms, and enforceability 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.
• Partner with Finance, Tax, HR, Commercial and Business Development to ensure contracts reflect end-to-end operational and compliance realities.
• Adapt global templates for local use while maintaining core protections and global standards.
• Support consistent implementation of corporate behaviours and standards.
• Train commercial and operational teams on contracting and litigation risks, red flags, and required controls specific to high-risk jurisdictions.
• Track, interpret, and communicate changes in local laws and regulations, translating them into clear, actionable operational guidance.
• Work with Legal and Compliance to update and align policies, procedures, and controls with evolving regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Provide oversight and collaboration on legal matters intersecting with compliance, regulatory obligations, and operational risk.
• Help lead and coordinate responses to regulatory exams, audits, and inquiries, including submissions, remediation planning, and cross-functional preparation.
• Report to senior leadership on regulatory developments, emerging risks, trends, and key compliance metrics across high-risk jurisdictions.
• Optimise external legal spend by negotiating best rates, capped fee regimes and monitoring and recording external legal performance and spend in accordance with the department’s best practice.
• Progress internal billing approvals with relevant stakeholders.
• Helping with financial and audit requests on law firm appointments and billing information.
• Distinguishes between nice to have vs. essential and critical legal solutions.
• Exercises sound legal and commercial judgement for any of the accountabilities and tasks above.
• Identifies material legal risks and ensures that contract qualifications are optimised accordingly.
• Interprets opaque, rapidly changing, or inconsistently enforced local laws and translates them into practical compliance controls.

Essential Qualifications And Skills

• Legally qualified with maximum years of experience managing complex commercial multi-jurisdictional disputes, arbitration, or regulatory matters for a global organisation.
• Demonstrated experience working in a senior position in a multinational organization.
• Good communicator with a pragmatic, methodical, detail-oriented, flexible and dynamic approach.
• Realistic negotiator.
• Experience of driving intellectually complex issues to a firm, practical conclusion.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to build and maintain complex, sensitive and influential relationships across a wide group of stakeholders.
• Ability to see the bigger picture and consider advice in the context of wider organisational goals/policies.
• Ability to self-initialise and perform tasks with minimal supervision and prioritise conflicting demands.
• Confident and capable of interfacing with senior management and partnering with all parts of the business including BD, Commercial, Operations, Project delivery teams, Treasury, Tax, Finance, Co Sec, Compliance, Legal and SCM.
• Risk-based, practical approach to regulatory compliance in high-risk operational environments.