About the Role
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The opportunity
SAS Energy is a UK-based renewable energy specialist and a wholly owned subsidiary of EDF Renewables, the C&I (Commercial and Industrial) solar division of EDF Renewables.
This is your opportunity to work as Lead Legal Counsel where you’ll provide strategic legal support across all stages of SAS Energy projects, including contracts for land and grid access, PPAs, construction, O&M, and the supply chain. The role ensures timely, risk-appropriate advice to protect the business and secure favourable outcomes. You’ll lead the legal efforts at SAS Energy, driving everything from strategic project contract negotiations to ensuring strong and effective internal governance.
It also involves advising the SAS Energy board on high-priority legal issues, acting as the primary legal contact for EDF Renewables and the wider EDF Group, and managing external legal advisors. The Lead Legal Counsel is responsible for maintaining robust legal processes, ensuring governance compliance, and supporting project teams and senior leadership.
This role is integrated into the EDF Renewables legal community, offering access to broader group expertise and support.
Pay, benefits and culture
If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’
Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.
We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.
Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.
We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.
We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll be a trusted legal partner to the business, delivering strategic and commercial legal support across all activities.
Partner with the business to provide sharp legal and strategic support across all activities. Lead resource management—including external and junior legal teams—to meet evolving business needs. Drive knowledge sharing, training, and mentoring to build expertise. Stay ahead of legal risks and compliance challenges through proactive horizon-scanning and planning. Own all legal agreements for SAS Energy, expertly drafting and negotiating contracts across projects. Act as a trusted advisor to project leads, delivering timely, practical legal solutions that keep projects on track. Identify risks and brief senior leadership and shareholders to support informed decisions.
Manage external legal counsel efficiently and lead key compliance and documentation projects to strengthen SAS Energy’s legal foundation.
What do you need to be great at this role?
We’re looking for a sharp, commercially-minded legal professional with 6–7+ years’ post-qualification experience—ideally in the renewable energy sector or a similarly fast-paced, regulated environment.
You’ll be confident drafting and negotiating complex construction, commercial, and corporate contracts, with deep knowledge of UK law and energy regulation. You’ve got a proven track record of shaping legal strategy, delivering results, and managing risk in high-stakes environments.
We want someone who can thrive under pressure, communicate clearly across all levels of the business—including shareholders—and turn complex legal issues into practical, actionable advice. You’ll be detail-oriented, well-organised, and bring strong drafting, research, and prioritisation skills—plus a flexible, business-focused mindset that drives smart decisions.
Location: Edenbridge, Kent
Closing date: 23rd June 2025
Why EDF Renewables?
At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.
It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.
To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.
If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.
What's in it for you?
Join us, and let’s do good together.
