About the RoleThe Assistant General Counsel of EPC and Supply Chain role serves as the company's lead lawyer for the company's engineering, construction, and equipment procurement activities. This position holds direct legal ownership over the company's infrastructure build-outs and data center construction projects. Partnering daily with our Construction and Supply Chain teams, you will drive the legal strategy, negotiate and draft EPC agreements, pre-construction services agreements, design build agreements, master service agreements, construction management agreements and supply agreements. You will manage operational risk during project execution, providing definitive guidance on claims, change orders, liquidated damages (LDs), and contractor performance problems. This role requires close cross-functional collaboration with the Construction, Supply Chain and Strategic Finance teams.
Key Responsibilities- Lead the negotiation and drafting of complex EPC agreements, construction contracts, early works agreements, master services agreements and supplier agreements. Partner with the Construction and Supply Chain teams to own and manage all commercial, milestone, warranty, and LD schedules.
- Advise on change orders, delays, LD exposure, warranty issues, and contractor performance problems.
- Direct and coordinate with outside counsel on complex construction agreements and contractor/supplier disputes.
- Ensure construction timelines legally align with utility interconnection windows, customer delivery obligations and financing requiements.
- Interface directly with the AGCs of Development, Energy, and Strategic Transactions to ensure unified terms across site control, power availability, and project financing deliverables. Flag misalignments early and execute corrective pathways.
- Oversee legal aspects of long-lead procurement agreements for major electrical components (transformers, switchgear, generators), aligning vendor contracts with prime EPC flowdowns and warranty structures.
- Build, maintain, and continuously refresh construction exhibit libraries, standardized change order procedures, and repeatable flowdown matrices to accelerate parallel builds.
- Provide proactive legal guidance to the Construction and Supply Chain teams.
- Ensure construction-related risk profiles are accurately reflected in Board and executive reporting materials.
- Direct and manage construction litigation and specialized EPC firms, maintaining strict budget oversight and scope containment while capturing knowledge internally.
About You- You have an active license to practice law in at least one U.S. State and are a member in good standing of one U.S. Bar.
- You have a minimum of 10 years of legal experience, with specialized experience drafting and negotiating large-scale construction and infrastructure agreements and EPC agreements.
- You have excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication (written and verbal) skills.
- You excel at the early escalation and structural mitigation of project disputes, preserving the company's legal positions while keeping active construction moving forward.
- You maintain a rigorous understanding of how milestone dependencies, LD triggers, and completion criteria impact capital markets deliverables and downstream customer commitments.
- Have you managed the legal resolution of a material construction delay claims, liquidated damages disputes and contractor defaults.
- You understand the logistical and contractual complexities of global equipment procurement and know how to legally secure delivery certainty in volatile vendor markets.
- You are a strategic thinker with a practical, business-oriented approach to legal issues.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENTThis role is in office at our corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
