Santos
About Us
Santos is a global energy company committed to increasingly cleaner energy and fuels production, with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.
We are currently PNG’s largest single investor and most active explorer, operating all the country’s producing oil fields and holding an extensive appraisal and exploration portfolio. Our aspirations and strategies reflect our genuine commitment to making a meaningful contribution to the lives of Papua New Guineans.
At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.
Santos is one of Australia’s biggest domestic gas supplier, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.
For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of Santos’ Legal, Risk & Compliance. Based at Port Moresby and reporting to the Legal Manager – PNG, the primary objective of this position is to support the Legal Manager and Senior Management of PNG Asset in:
- Advising of applicable laws and obligations relating to Santos’s business objectives.
- Ensuring that the business objectives and Santos’ vision and purpose are lawfully executed.
- Ensuring that legal advice and support is provided accurately and efficiently, in a timely manner, and is focused on the key objectives of Santos while being of the highest standard.
- Key focus/support area – managing litigation, litigious matters and disputes and claims.
Key responsibilities of the role is to provide proactive, commercially focused legal advice to execute initiatives and objectives of Santos, including:
- Advising on all aspects of litigation and litigious matters involving Santos;
- Being actively involved in the day-to-day conduct of material disputes;
- Assessing and implementing defence strategies around key corporate risks associated with business conduct;
- Legal representation in Santos projects;
- Supporting and monitoring Company’s policy on document retention to ensure compliance with legal obligations in connection with any contemplated litigation or investigation;
- Provide advice and counsel to the Business Asset on legislative, regulatory and policy issues and participate in planning to ensure the Business remains in regulatory compliance.
- Confer with counterparts in the industry and heads of various legal and commercial offices to address joint venture issues;
- Liaising with external legal service providers and establish teams in readiness for anticipated disputes;
- Legal cost management;
- Compliance with the Santos Management System (SMS); Santos Delegation of Authority (DOA); and Santos Corporate Governance and Safety requirements.
- Assist with issues and matters facing the PNG Asset as directed to by the Legal Manager.
About You
We are seeking for candidates that is a good communicator, a problem-solver with keen eye for details, and a strong team player with the following professional experience:
- Extensive years’ corporate legal experience (including private practice and in-house), preferably with some oil and gas/energy sector experience
- Knowledge and experience in corporate commercial matters and litigation involving energy, oil and gas.
- Sound knowledge of regulatory environment in energy sector.
- Sound knowledge and experience with PNG courts.
- High level commercial and legal acumen with the ability to identify and mitigate risk.
- Excellent drafting skills and initiative.
- Strong strategic and analytical thinker.
- Must have exceptional interpersonal skills including ability to network at a high level and build relationships.
Essential qualifications required for this position are:
- Bachelor of Laws
- Admitted to practice in PNG and hold current PNG legal practicing certificate
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 4th April 2024.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for PNG to apply.
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To apply for this job please visit recruitment.santos.com.