Description:
What are your contributions to the team?Essential Functions:
- Adhere to Bombardier General Work Rules.
- Participate in all legal activities.
- Assist and/or lead the negotiation, drafting and/or review of various agreements
- Provide legal counsel regarding US Federal laws and regulations
- Support claims, HR issues and potentially litigious matters in conjunction with the Bombardier litigation team.
- Support US infrastructure and expansion projects.
- Support the compliance team with US related compliance issues.
- Be solicited by your clients regularly in order to provide legal guidance, advice and to ensure compliance with contracts and for legal interpretation of different contractual provisions.
- Be relied upon to identify and anticipate contractual problems by ensuring efficient communication between your clients and other stakeholders,
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting Bombardier and provide practical guidance to business leaders
- Serve as a key resource on complex and critical issues.
- How to thrive in this role?
Minimum Requirements:
- Juris Doctor degree (J.D.)
- Admittance to at least one US State Bar.
- At least eight (8) years of relevant experience in corporate law, commercial contracts and/or commercial litigation.
- Leadership capabilities, ability to work autonomously, excellent legal and business acumen, ability to take quick decisions and provide strategic advice in a fast moving, dynamic environment.
- Strong negotiation, drafting and communication skills.
- Planning and organizational skills necessary to prioritize, assign, and coordinate work.
- Interpersonal skills and ability to work with legal department and non-legal department colleagues, as well as all levels of management.
- Computer skills necessary to learn and/or operate word processing, spreadsheet, database, email, and web-based applications
Additional Desired/Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated expertise in government contracts law, including FAR and DFARS, with experience supporting Department of Defense programs and classified contracts.
- Familiarity with ITAR, EAR, CMMC, NIST cybersecurity requirements, and other defense-sector regulatory frameworks.
- Extensive experience negotiating and advising on complex commercial and government-related transactions.
- Strong understanding of the federal procurement process and contractual frameworks.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a wide range of agreements, including aircraft purchase agreements, data license agreements, engineering service agreements, modification agreements.
- Partner with compliance, export control, contracts, and business teams to ensure adherence to applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Counsel stakeholders on matters involving, cybersecurity obligations, intellectual property, organizational conflicts of interest, and government ethics requirements.
- Support the Contracts team and other business stakeholders through the tender and program execution contract lifecycle.
- Ability to balance legal risk with business objectives in a fast-paced environment.
- Advise on contractual rights, obligations, claims, disputes, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Engage with outside counsel as required.
- Experience with bid protests, contract claims, investigations, or government audits is an asset.