Principal, Counsel

Job Title: Principal, Counsel

Job Code: 33870

Job Location: Greenville TX, Plano TX, Waco TX, or Rockwall TX (100% on site)

Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking an experienced, proactive, and solutions-focused Principal, Counsel to join the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sector.  Reporting to the Senior Director, Counsel of the sector, this role operates as a legal specialist and business partner in providing strategic, proactive, and practical legal counsel and guidance to sector management and staff on general and specialized legal matters.

Essential Functions:  

• Partners with leaders to assess, predict, and manage legal and other risks in a growing business operating internationally


• Advises, counsels, and functions as a trusted business partner on legal and other matters related to the business objectives of the sector


• Provides legal guidance and counseling on risk mitigation strategies, contract interpretation and provisions, dispute resolution, and other legal issues


• Negotiates, researches, drafts, revises, and / or analyzes agreements, contracts, memoranda, legal correspondence, and other legal documents


• Engages in factual investigation, analyzes complex legal and factual issues, conducts extensive legal research, independently develops, recommends, and presents strategies on a wide range of legal matters


• Ensures that sector practices and procedures comply with global, federal, state and local laws and regulations, and are consistent with applicable corporate policies and procedures


• Engages with customer counterparts as reasonably required in support of addressing certain complex legal / business transactional matters


• Collaborates with operational, subcontracts and supply chain leadership to ensure that contractual and operational risks assumed by the business are flowed down to subcontractors and suppliers


• Monitors, reviews, and resolves day-to day legal and regulatory issues as they are assigned


• Maintains knowledge of current and emerging laws, regulations, and trends

  
Qualifications: 

• Doctorate (JD) degree


• Active state license to practice law


• Active DOD Secret Security Clearance

Preferred Skills: 

• Government contracts experience within the US DoD market is highly preferred, including both U.S. and international government and commercial customers


• Experience in aircraft purchasing


• Strong negotiation and dispute resolution skills


• Personal commitment to ethics and compliance, and experience working in an environment with high ethical standards