General Counsel - Training and Logistics Solutions (HYBRID TELEWORK)

Description:

We are committed to work life balance by promoting this HYBRID TELEWORK opportunity. These job requirements allow the employee to work at a Lockheed Martin-designated office or job site for part of their schedule and has a predefined regular, recurring telework schedule for the remaining part of their work schedule.

THE WORK

The General Counsel for the Training and Logistics Solutions (TLS) line of business in RMS has overall responsibility for legal matters in the business.

General Counsel must provide timely, accurate, and consistent legal advice to enable the line of business to achieve business goals while maintaining an acceptable level of business risk. General Counsel will review contractual language and documents to verify that third party relationships are clearly defined within the context of the law and Lockheed Martin policies. General Counsel will ensure that the line of business and supporting functions have adequate legal support for cost effective operations and consistent execution of all customer and supplier contracts. This includes coordination of legal work performed by others, including support from RMS and Corporate attorneys, as well as management of outside counsel. The General Counsel is a member of the TLS Senior Leadership Team.

Responsibilities include:

• Provides legal advice, counsel and service to internal business clients concerning legal rights, obligations, and privileges of corporations.
• Responsible for managing the departmental budget.
• Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessments, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Draws up contracts involving leases, licenses, purchases, sales, real estate, employment, insurance, mergers, acquisitions and related matters.
• Keeps current on legislative issues, statutes, decisions and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies. Examines legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit. Acts as agent of corporation in various transactions.
• Advises company regarding concerns for risk assessment. May develop, review, or implement company-wide and/or functionally specific training programs. May also oversee corporate governance matters and its various committees. May work with outside counsel to direct activities.

WHO WE ARE

Our customers are world-wide and so is our reputation for creating original solutions with the latest technologies. Our products keep our customers safe and bring them home to their families at night.

We provide the resources, inspiration, and focus - if you have the resourcefulness and perseverance to work hard, then we want to create a better tomorrow with you.

WHO YOU ARE

You thrive in a collaborative, multidisciplinary engineering environment and are committed to delivering best-in-class products and solutions.

WHY JOIN US

We believe that owning your career and having the freedom to make critical business decisions is key to making a real impact.

With the autonomy to use your skills and expertise in innovative ways, you can take on exciting challenges and help solve some of the world's most pressing problems.

Basic Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success in providing legal counsel for a large, complex business
• Broad knowledge of government contracts issues/practices; track record of driving change and constructing favorable contractual vehicles; international law experience and/or knowledge; strong business experience with thorough understanding of finance and contracts elements
• Well established network in the external legal community
• Demonstrated track record supporting commercial, civil, government and international contracts
• Team orientation/creative partnering with the ability to partner across geographically diverse locations
• Able to facilitate business while proactively protecting legal risk
• Ability to think and act strategically and tactically
• Able to collaborate with multi-functional teams to support optimum decision-making.
• Must have admission to practice law
• Ability to obtain Secret Clearance

Desired Skills:

• Experience working in the aerospace and defense industry
• Experience at a top law firm, with the government as a prosecutor, and/or in-house at a multi-national company
• Experience handling complex investigations or litigation involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption regulations, accounting fraud, procurement fraud, cross-border investigations, and/or the False Claims Act
• Experience handling classified matters
• Background in U.S. government contracting

Security Clearance Statement:

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Secret

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest:

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to Work Remotely:

Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

Work Schedules:

Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.

Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

Business Unit: RMS

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Legal

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First