- Strategic Partnership: Serve as lead counsel for global counsel exceed $1 billion in value from RFP to delivery. Collaborate extensively with commercial teams and other business functions to facilitate successful bidding on international large-scale projects, while adeptly managing contractual risks.
- Contract Advisory & Negotiations: Provide expert advice on structuring contracts with Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) firms and other strategic partners, ensuring both commercial viability and risk mitigation. Draft, negotiate, and oversee complex EPC, OEM supply, construction, and joint venture agreements with global partners, developers, and government entities. Structure contracts to support bankability, compliance, and operational flexibility across multiple jurisdictions.
- Project Execution Support: Counsel project execution teams on claims management, subcontractor disputes, change orders, and compliance with contract obligations. Lead strategy for dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation proceedings when necessary.
- Sourcing Collaboration: Work in conjunction with the sourcing function to navigate complex sourcing arrangements, optimizing contract structures for both commercial success and risk management.
- Enterprise Risk, Regulatory and Compliance Leadership: Offer authoritative guidance on regulatory issues, compliance matters, environmental law, intellectual property, insurance, and international trade controls, ensuring adherence to applicable laws and standards. Monitor evolving global regulations, sanctions, and local law developments that may impact project execution.
- Dispute Resolution: Lead efforts in litigation, arbitration, mediation, and other dispute resolution processes, safeguarding the company's interests.
- Joint Venture Governance: Engage with and provide oversight to the joint venture structure, ensuring robust governance and alignment with business objectives.
- Budget Management: Oversee the legal department's budget, including strategic management of outside counsel expenditures to ensure cost-efficiency.
- Team leadership/people development: Foster and develop leadership capabilities within the legal team, promoting a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continual professional growth.
Basic Qualifications:
- Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent from an accredited law school, with active membership in the bar.
- 12+ years of progressive, post-qualification legal experience with a strong focus on infrastructure projects, ideally in an in-house OEM, energy, construction, or engineering environment.
- Deep experience with project agreements in domestic and international contexts.
- Experience working within or advising large OEMs or multinational industrial companies.
- Strong understanding of project finance, cross-border regulatory environments, and sovereign/government contracting.
- Track record of executive-level influence, commercial pragmatism, and sound risk judgment.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or possess qualifications for access to classified information.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in managing complex, international commercial legal matters.
- Proven track record as a counsel in large infrastructure projects.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities and experience functioning as a member of the senior management team.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to deliver cost-effective and timely legal services.
- Willingness and capability to travel internationally to support global business needs.
- Ability to distill complex legal issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal stakeholders.
- Comfortable operating with incomplete information and rapidly changing commercial dynamics.
- Culturally fluent and experienced working across time zones and regions; Multilingual capabilities and international legal experience
- Proven success navigating large matrixed organizations and engaging at the board or C-suite level.
- Resilient, proactive, and able to manage competing priorities under pressure.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position only:
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on April 19, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity Executive Services. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off, and the Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
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