P3 Commercial Post-Let Attorney

Job Summary:

Leads and assists in one or more of the following areas: OMAT, maintenance, construction, intermodal, planning, utilities, surveying, environmental or traffic. Serves as assistant office head to professionals providing professional support in one or more of the areas listed.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides advice about design-build and P3 post-let issues, relief and compensation events, allowances, notices, based on contract language, relevant laws and regulations, Department business priorities, and programmatic commercial considerations
• Coordinates post-let document revisions and change management processes with project management team
• Under supervision, coordinates with Department’s external insurance, legal and financial advisers and internal SMEs as needed to meet needs of P3 Division post-let project teams
• Provides initial review for legal and commercial consistency of post-let project correspondence and all post-let supplemental agreements
• Requires ability to:
• Analyze DB and P3 contracts, all of which are slightly different from each other, in context of Department goals
• Take direction from chain of command
• Provide advice and a variety of options under the contract
• Flexibility
• Work with a diverse group of internal and external customers/individuals

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The selected candidate must meet the advertised minimum qualifications to include State Entry Qualifications as well as Agency Specific Qualifications.

Entry Qualifications:

• Associate degree in a related field managerial or supervisory role; or one (1) year at the lower level Mgr 2, Transport Specialist (TRM031) or position equivalent.

Agency Specific Qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited college or university AND license to practice law in the State of Georgia
• Five (5) years of legal experience that includes contract negotiation and drafting
• Working knowledge related to at least one of the following areas: construction, environmental law, property law, condemnation law, private public partnerships, alternative delivery project contracts, project finance, project management, dispute resolution and/or regulation interpretation and compliance
• Demonstrated experience managing and resolving conflicts, confrontations and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner to minimize negative personal impact
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience expressing ideas and facts to individuals or groups effectively
• Make clear and convincing oral presentations
• Facilitates an open exchange of ideas
• Demonstrated experience identifying and analyzing problems
• Demonstrated experience using sound reasoning to arrive at conclusions
• Demonstrated experience finding alternative solutions to complex problems
• Demonstrated experience distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical judgements
• Demonstrated experience to quickly adapt to change including new policies and procedures
• Displays high level of self-motivation
• Demonstrated ability to recognize opportunities to help the organization accomplish its objectives
• Possesses good time management skills
• Strong customer orientation.

Agency Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of and experience related to two or more of the following areas:
• construction law, project management, dispute resolution, and/or regulation interpretation and compliance