Assistant General Counsel

Primary Duties and Accountabilities

• Serve as principal legal advisor supporting the day-to-day operation of Constellation’s non-nuclear generation assets on the East Coast and Mid-West.
• Partner directly with operations leadership, commercial teams, engineering, environmental, asset management, and legal subject matter experts to identify legal and commercial risk early and develop creative business-oriented strategies that enable safe and reliable operations of the assets.
• Broad legal experience preferred, with energy, environmental or asset management experience a plus. Will advise on compliance, environmental, financial, real property, tax, commercial, and corporate issues.
• Draft, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of complex operational agreements, including co-generation steam and energy supply, fuel supply, O&M, LTSA, procurement, construction and real estate agreements.
• Provide strategic legal support during planned outages, forced outages, emergency operations events, major equipment failures and restoration activities.
• Assist in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, asset integrations, including due diligence, transaction documentation, regulatory approvals.
• Manage outside counsel to maximize benefits and minimize costs.
• Required to have or develop familiarity but not primary responsibility for federal and wholesale power market (PJM, ISO-NE, and NYISO) regulatory matters associated with these power plants (and ability to support associated compliance efforts).
• Ability to collaborate with Constellation legal department subject matter experts, including Operations, Environmental Health & Safety, Construction/Engineering, Government and Regulatory, Trading and Origination, Tax, Accounting and Public Relations/ Corporate Communications to develop practical legal solutions that support fleet optimization,
• Build trusted relationships across all levels of the organization by translating complex legal issues into clear, actionable business advice