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Legal Counsel – NQ to PQE Solicitor (International Role)
The Accelerating Legal Excellence Opportunity
Wood’s award-winning Eastern Hemisphere Legal team is seeking a NQ to PQE (pre-qualification experience) solicitor to join in the role of Legal Counsel, based in Reading or Aberdeen with hybrid working capabilities.
About the Role
This role delivers precise, commercial, timely, and cost-effective legal advice across multi-jurisdictional matters with potential legal or reputational implications. You will support Wood’s strategic priorities globally (across UK & Europe, Middle East, Africa (CIS), and APAC) through effective legal risk and cost management.
Your responsibilities span a broad spectrum of specialist legal areas, including but not limited to:
- Litigation and disputes
- Contract/project support (EPC/EPCm and joint ventures)
- Employment law & compliance
- Real estate & company establishment
Our Clients and Purpose Wood drives transformation across 60+ countries, partnering with clients to deliver engineering, advisory, and operational solutions in energy and materials. You’ll contribute to innovative projects, such as green hydrogen and fuel switching, while shaping a lower-carbon future.
What We Offer
- Meaningful work: Support net-zero transitions locally and globally
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Diversity and inclusion: Active commitment with employee networks ensuring every voice is heard
- Competitive benefits:
- £35,000–£45,000 (dependent on experience) with annual salary reviews
- 33-day sick/holiday leave (including public holidays)
- Generous contributory pension, private medical coverage, and 4x salary life insurance
- Career growth: Tailored CPD plans and global collaboration with leading thinkers
- Development mentorship: Trainer from an experienced colleague + opportunities to broaden specialisms
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Responsibilities
- Provision of cost-effective, sustainable legal advice across regions with budget oversight
- Complex analysis and counsel for UK & Europe, CIS, APAC leadership on legal risks and disputes
- Support in litigation/dispute strategy: instructing, supervising, and resolving cases with external counsel
- Matter management: records of matter budgets, performance KPIs, and cost tracking
- Risk mitigation: anticipating legal/strategic risks and developing solutions
- Cross-functional legal compliance: oversight of functional risk while driving business-strategic initiatives
- Project management: transaction administration, litigation oversight, and vendor relations
- Knowledge-sharing: internal training materials, templates, and mentoring initiatives
- Global mindset: building collaboration in an advanced client-facing team
Quality Qualifications
Experience & Skills (Non Negotiable):
- NQ to 3 PQE credits:
- In-house or private sector solicitor experience
- Commercial legal acumen: advanced analytical and risk-based problem-solving
- Counsel & drafting: Interpret, syntactic structure, and articulate conclusions with sound analytical judgement
- Contract & dispute awareness: Core EPC/EPCm models, claims, variations, termination/clauses, and dispute conflict processes
- Matter management: Document control, reporting, and cost-scoping fundamentals
- Ability to power stakeholder management: Present complex issues clearly to non-lawyers
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Soft Skills:
- Flexibility: Adaptability in dynamic and collaborative cultures
- Proactive ownership: Proactively manage deadlines and build relationships
Desirable Traits
- Engineering strategic experience: In context of contracts/construction or EPC projects, contentious or cooperative
- Contract luck claims awareness: Hands-on with delays, variations, or strategic dispute resolution models
- Employment/HR expertise: Handling sensitive documentation effectively
- Multi-jurisdictional comfort: Resilience with time-zone hopping or rapid knowledge transference
- Matriculous operational skills: ایالت-alignment with commercial, financial, or HR-teams
Empowering GoalsExpectation/Enabling Skills
Sesite across jurisdictions while:
- Delivering value-driven counsel
- Shaping innovative legal solutions beyond traditional legal boundaries
- Building trust via transparent, consistent communication
- Aligning and advising multi-speciality projects
- Evaluating external counsel efficacy against budget targets
About Wood
Wood serves 33,000+ specialists across 50+ countries, focusing on energy, infrastructure, and materials for a resilient and carbon-optimized future. We’re part of Sidara, a global collaboration of multidisciplinary engineering firms.
Inclusion Commitment
Wood is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture. We proudly employ persons regardless of race, age, colour, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other attribute protected by law.
— Apply now: www.woodgroup.com.
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