Construction Senior Associate

Overview

In this senior role, you will advise on contentious construction and engineering matters for a national and international client base. You will lead dispute avoidance and resolution strategies, working with partners and cross-functional teams to move projects forward. You’ll mentor junior lawyers and help develop client relationships with developers, contractors, consultants, funders and occupiers. This is a high-impact position within a collaborative, growth‑minded team focused on complex infrastructure and energy projects.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
• pension schemes
• volunteering days (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership with Aviva Digital GP
• hybrid working options via Flexible by Choice
• wellbeing initiatives and recognition as Best Workplaces for Wellbeing 2024

Responsibilities

• Advising on a broad range of contentious construction and engineering matters in a partner-led team
• Providing pragmatic dispute avoidance strategies to manage risk
• Supporting negotiations, mediations and non-adversarial ADR processes
• Handling disputes involving delays, defects, payment issues, and professional negligence
• Leading or supporting adjudications, litigation, and international arbitrations
• Co-ordinating with clients, technical experts and cross-firm colleagues to deliver integrated advice
• Engaging in business development and cultivating relationships with developers, contractors, consultants, funders and occupiers
• Mentoring and developing junior lawyers within the team
• Pursuing high-quality, complex work with potential progression toward partnership or senior associate roles

Key requirements

• Qualified lawyer with at least 5 years’ PQE
• Experience in contentious construction, engineering and infrastructure, with some international arbitration exposure
• Excellent drafting, analytical and technical skills on complex contractual and project issues
• Ability to work autonomously while collaborating with colleagues
• Comfort building trusted client relationships in high-value, fast-moving environments
• Commercially aware with a practical risk-management approach
• Proactive in supporting business development and team growth
• Experience mentoring or supervising junior lawyers

• Mentoring and coaching
• Relationship-building
• Commercially aware
• Drafting of complex contracts and dispute documents
• Dispute resolution strategies (ADR, adjudication, arbitration)
• Knowledge of construction and engineering contracts

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