Legal Counsel

Wärtsilä Energy Storage is powering the shift to a cleaner, more resilient grid.

We work at the front lines of the energy transition, helping partners around the world maximize the value of renewables through grid-scale battery systems, advanced software, and expert services. Our portfolio includes the industry-leading GEMS Digital Energy Platform, utility-scale battery solutions, and lifecycle services that keep storage assets optimized and ready when it matters most.

With over 17 GWh of storage deployed or under contract across 130+ projects globally, we’re shaping how the grid of the future works.

In a world of rising complexity and accelerating change, we’re looking for future-focused talent to help us design, deliver, and support the energy systems of tomorrow.

Sound like your kind of challenge? Let’s build it together. 

Job Title: Legal Counsel – Energy Storage (12-month fixed term)

Location: Sydney CBD (hybrid, part-time and flexible arrangements considered)

Wärtsilä is a global leader in smart technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. With a 191-year legacy and 17,900 employees across 78 countries, Wärtsilä helps customers improve their environmental and economic performance. Wärtsilä is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.

The opportunity

We’re looking for a commercially minded lawyer to join Wärtsilä’s Energy Storage Business in Australia. You’ll support a Tier 1 global energy storage provider working on some of Australia’s most significant, technically complex, and market-leading energy projects.

This role suits someone who enjoys ownership, moves confidently between legal detail and commercial outcomes, and thrives in finding practical solutions to complex challenges.

What you’ll do

You’ll partner closely with commercial, project delivery, and leadership teams across the project lifecycle - from tender and contract negotiations through to delivery and back-end support.

The role is high impact. You’ll take an active role on large, technically complex and first of kind-energy storage projects. Heping our utility and developer customers navigate some of the most complex challenges of the energy transition.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and support contract negotiations with customers, partners, and key suppliers; identify, explain, and manage legal/commercial risk in a practical way.
• Draft, structure and negotiate high-value agreements, including supply, services, commissioning, O&M/LTSA-style arrangements, SaaS/software and data-related terms, NDAs, and global procurement agreements.
• Advise on project delivery support projects teams navigate project delivery challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Improve how we work, implement and continuously refine contracting playbooks, templates, and ways of working. Coach stakeholders to lift contracting capability across the business.
• Work with senior management to ensure that company risk policy and other key requirements are followed in respect of entry into commercial contracts and day-to-day operations
• Occasional travel may be required to support customer and project needs.

About you:

• Commercial communicator: you explain complex topics clearly, raise issues early, and propose workable solutions.
• Strong judgment: you balance legal risk with business outcomes and can take a principled position when it matters.
• Collaborative partner: you’re brilliant but grounded, enjoy building trust with multidisciplinary teams and work effectively across a matrix organisation.
• Curious and pragmatic: you have strong technical curiosity and enjoy learning the technical and delivery realities behind the contract. You understand, or are keen to learn, energy project specific issues (grid connections, programs, specifications, drawings etc.)
• Customer-oriented: you build credible, professional relationships with external stakeholders.

• Creative: a proactive problem-solver who enjoys finding creative solutions to solve pain points and enable commercial opportunities.

• High ownership and drive: you take responsibility for outcomes, build personal and organisational performance, and continuously look for better ways to do things.
• Globally minded & ethical: comfortable working across time zones and cultures, and you reinforce Wärtsilä’s safety and integrity standards above all.

Experience and qualifications

• Minimum 4 years PQE in private practice or in-house.
• Admitted to practice in Australia. Foreign-qualified candidates from an equivalent common law jurisdiction may be considered if eligible to work in Australia.
• Experience in construction/infrastructure/energy is highly valued. Adjacent experience handling complex negotiations, deals, or disputes is also well regarded.

Contract

This is a 12-month fixed-term role based in Sydney. If you’re outside Sydney or seeking an alternative arrangement, we’re open to discussing flexibility for the right candidate.

Contact and next steps:

Does this sound like the job for you? Please submit your application via the careers portal before the application deadline. Our recruiting tool recognizes the time zone where the job ad has been published and closes the application period according to same time zone. Due to data privacy laws, we only receive applications via our careers portal. We discourage sending any applications by email.

At Wartsila we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job-relevant merits and abilities.

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At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job-relevant merits and abilities. 

Please note that according to Wärtsilä policy, voluntary consent for a security check may be required from candidates being considered for this position, depending on the applicable country. 

This is Wärtsilä  

Wärtsilä is a global leader in innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. Our team of 18,300 professionals, in more than 230 locations in 77 countries, shape the decarbonisation transformation of our industries across the globe. Read more on www.wartsila.com. 

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