Good Energy
Legal Counsel
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Legal Counsel
Application Deadline: 23 August 2026
Department: Legal
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire
Reporting To: Peter Skeen
Compensation: £65,000 - £80,000 / year
Description
No day will be the same - here are some of the highlights
We have an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded Legal Counsel to support Good Energy’s growing Solar Services business. The role will focus on construction, installation, procurement, and supply chain matters, while also supporting wider commercial initiatives connected to the continued growth of our Services platform.
The right person will bring construction or projects experience, sound commercial judgement, and an interest in getting close to the business. You’ll work closely with operational, commercial, and proposition teams to help the business contract effectively, manage risk pragmatically, and keep projects moving.
Responsibilities:
- Commercial support: Provide commercially focused legal advice to the Services business across construction, installation, procurement, supplier, subcontractor, and project delivery matters.
- Build trusted partnerships: Develop and maintain strong relationships across the business, becoming the go-to legal advisor for commercial contracts and legal support, across our Services business. Proactively understand team priorities and provide pragmatic, commercially focused advice that influences decision-making.
- Contracting: Draft, review, and negotiate JCT-based contracts, installation frameworks, supplier agreements, subcontractor terms, procurement documents, customer-facing terms, and related project documentation.
- Services propositions: Support the development and evolution of Good Energy’s Services propositions, including recurring service, maintenance, and subscription-based offerings, by providing commercially focused legal input on structure, customer terms, and operational delivery models.
- Risk management: Help manage legal and commercial risks, including contract governance, supplier management, template agreements, and escalation routes.
- Project delivery: Advise on legal issues arising during project delivery, including scope changes, delays, payment issues, defects, performance concerns, termination rights, and dispute avoidance.
- Supply chain: Support the business in managing supply chain legal and commercial risk, including warranties, liabilities, service levels, delivery obligations, indemnities, insurance, and product quality issues.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Services, Procurement, Finance, Operations, Propositions, and stakeholders across Good Energy to deliver practical, commercially sensible solutions within agreed timelines.
- External counsel: Manage external legal advisers on specialist construction, procurement, or project delivery matters where required, ensuring external spend remains proportionate and effective.
- Guidance and training: Assist with delivering training and guidance to the Services business on contract risk, procurement processes, dispute avoidance, and escalation procedures.
- Commercial mindset: Build a strong understanding of operational delivery, procurement requirements, and supply chain challenges to provide clear, pragmatic legal recommendations that support business objectives.
- Relationship building: Use strong emotional intelligence, communication, and stakeholder management skills to build trusted relationships with colleagues at all levels across the business.
- Broad exposure: While the role is primarily focused on Services, construction, and procurement matters, there may also be opportunities to support wider commercial contracting activity across the business from time to time.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What you'll need to succeed
This role is likely to suit a commercially minded construction or projects lawyer looking to make a first or early move into a broader business-facing in-house role.
You'll be a confident, approachable relationship builder who creates trusted partnerships across the business. Friendly and engaging, you'll quickly become a go-to advisor for stakeholders at all levels.
We’re looking for a commercially minded and legally qualified professional with experience supporting construction, procurement, supply chain, installation, or other project-based services. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, operational environment where legal advice needs to be practical, proportionate, and aligned with business priorities. You’ll bring strong contracting expertise and the confidence to work closely with operational, procurement, and commercial teams, helping them navigate risk, make decisions quickly, and keep projects moving.
Essentials:
- Legal & Contracting Expertise
- Experience providing pragmatic legal support in construction, procurement, supply chain, installation, facilities, energy services, or similar project-based environments.
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills across commercial contracts, ideally including JCT contracts, framework agreements, supplier and subcontractor terms, and project delivery documentation.
- Experience working in a business-facing legal role supporting operational, procurement, commercial, and project delivery teams.
- Risk & Commercial Judgement
- Strong understanding of legal and commercial risk in procurement and delivery, including scope, specification, payment, delays, defects, quality, insurance, termination, and dispute resolution.
- Sound judgement to distinguish between issues that can be resolved pragmatically and those requiring escalation.
- Ability to balance commercial priorities with legal and operational risk to deliver practical, workable solutions.
- Ability to support live operational issues without overcomplicating or slowing down decision-making.
- Business & Stakeholder Focus
- Flexible and adaptable approach, with the ability to identify alternative contracting or risk allocation solutions where needed.
- Understanding of construction, installation, procurement, and supply chain environments and the realities of project delivery.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with confidence working across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Ability to build trusted relationships across commercial, procurement, operational, finance, and legal teams in fast-paced environments.
- Comfortable making decisions and providing clear recommendations under pressure.
- Able to work independently while escalating material risks appropriately.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Desirables:
- In-house experience.
- Experience in energy, renewables, facilities, or similar sectors.
We are particularly interested in candidates who want to develop beyond a specialist construction remit and work closely with operational, commercial, and proposition teams across the business.
Hybrid working explained: When and where you’ll be in the office
Our office is based in Chippenham, Wiltshire. For this role, we're looking for candidates who can come in to our Chippenham office, once a week based on location.
We offer both formal and informal flexible working options. Full-time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday.
The office is fully accessible, allowing everyone to participate fully in their working lives regardless of any mobility challenges. We promote work-life balance and flexibility through hybrid working, which combines both remote and office work.
Benefits you can rely on
- Great allowances for hybrid working:
- 🏡 £500 work from home allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with working from home costs.
- 🚆 £500 travel allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with travelling to work costs.
- 📖 £500 annual development allowance: to spend on your chosen development area, whether that’s in your current role, or future roles.
- 🎁 15% annual bonus: company-wide bonus scheme designed to reward collective teamwork and delivery of results across the whole business.
- Holiday: 25 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, additional days leave for long service, plus bank holidays. You’ll also have the option to buy additional leave, allowing for a better work-life balance.
- 💸 Ethical Pension with Aviva: Good Energy offers an ethical pension plan provided by Aviva, with employer-matched contributions up to 7.5% of your base salary.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills