Senior Legal Counsel

Linde Engineering North America LLC

Senior Legal Counsel

The Woodlands, TX, United States | req24488

What you will enjoy doing*

- You will serve as advisor and sounding board to the business teams, contributing as a strategic thought partner and representative of the legal department

- Provides leadership to drive toward legally and financially sound decisions and to minimize risk and secure return on investment

- In addition you will be responsible for drafts, reviews, and negotiates commercial agreements and related documents with counsel for customers and other outside parties, primarily on contracts and commercial disputes and in line with corporate objectives

- Provides proactive, strategic legal counsel to division heads and their teams

- Identifies, manages, and mitigates legal risk, including compliance and ethical issues affecting the business

- You will also collaborate with colleagues to address litigation and intellectual property issues as they arise

- Develops trusted relationships with internal clients at all organization levels through strong communication and interpersonal skills, acting with integrity and honesty

- Lastly, you will provide commercial legal advice with a primary focus on balancing risk and reward; advice required to be delivered without the benefit of exhaustive legal research on every issue

What Makes You Great

- Drafts, analyzes, and summarizes standard and unique contracts including master or framework agreements, supply contracts, riders, addenda/amendments, purchase orders, web site agreements, third party procurement agency agreements, power agreements, construction agreements; collaborates with other law department specialist attorneys and with responsible business leads to make recommendations that protect the company while securing the business.

- JD/LLB from recognized university in a common law country (or JD/LLB from a civil code country with an LLM from a common law country.)

- Qualified to practice law in one or more of the United States

- 5-10 years’ transaction/commercial experience

Why you will love working with us

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2024 sales of $33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

The company serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life-saving medical oxygen and high-purity & specialty gases for electronics. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

Linde employees learn and abide the Linde Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct by demonstrating honesty, integrity, professionalism in all communications, actions, and decisions.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you’re looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

In addition to competitive compensation we offer a wide range of medical options to suit everyone’s needs. Other benefits include; educational and professional development, employee discount program, 401K, pension plan, and life insurance, just to name a few.

Have we inspired you? Lets talk about it

We are looking forward to receiving your complete application.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

- The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.