Make your mark with Thiess  

Everyday, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity and embrace change.

Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment.  

Thiess is the place to make things happen.

What you’ll do

As Legal Counsel, you will have a critical role in delivering innovative and solution-focused legal advice across key areas, including strategic partnerships, asset services, global procurement, and treasury-related initiatives. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, including the CEO, CFO, and other executive stakeholders, as well as external regulators, banks, and strategic partners. This is a dynamic position that requires balancing commercial drivers with professional integrity to achieve "best for business" outcomes.

Key Responsibilities may include

• Practical & Commercial Advice: Deliver pragmatic, innovative, and commercially driven legal advice on a range of areas  including procurement, IP, financing, leasing, and asset services, while navigating legal, regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Drafting & Negotiation: Draft, review, and negotiate agreements and documents related to group corporate and operations initiatives. Simplify complex agreements into guidance documents or manuals for training purposes. Update the corporate suite of documents.
• Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong, respectful relationships with stakeholders, including board members, regulatory bodies, financial institutions, external law firms, and internal teams such as operations, procurement, other corporate functions and ELT members.
• Training & Education: Prepare and deliver tailored training sessions, ensuring legal concepts are presented in an approachable and easy-to-understand format.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

We are seeking a motivated professional who thrives in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will possess:

• Education: A law degree and admission to practice (+3-5 years’ experience); a current practicing certificate is a plus.
• Experience: External law firm and/or in-house legal experience (preferably in the resources/mining sector).
• Skills:
• Strong negotiation, drafting, and relationship management abilities.
• Excellent commercial acumen and a detailed understanding of practical legal and regulatory frameworks across a range of commercial areas, such as mining, resources or related industries.
• Proven ability to work well within a team as well as autonomously when required.
• Capable and willing to work in demanding environments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, and SharePoint.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate exceptional communication skills (written and verbal), attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with integrity and professionalism. A good grasp of asset management and finance principles, combined with your ability to navigate complex agreements, will further ensure your success in this role.

What we offer

• Flexible, hybrid work model
• Supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and continuous improvement
• Opportunity to work with an amazing team on a high impact project 
• Collaborative, values-led culture with a global reach.
• Access to leading-edge technology and systems.
• Competitive salary and employee benefits package

About us 

Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining. 

The pioneering spirit of our founders – the legendary Thiess brothers – is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change. 

At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining. 

We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning – supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining. 

We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers. 

We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered. 

Learn more http://thiess.com/makeyourmark

Should you require assistance applying for this opportunity, please contact us at hiring@thiess.com

How to Apply

This role is an opportunity to take the next step in your career. With our culture of recognition, development, and a stimulating and satisfying work environment, there is no better time to join Thiess.

Thiess follows a Pre-Employment Process for all successful applicants, which includes two employment references, a National Police Check and a medical assessment. These checks are essential to your application, and your recruiter will support you through the process.

Please click the “apply” button to apply for this role.

Applications close: Wednesday 13 August 2025