Services Counsel- Americas

Fluence

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Arlington, VA, USA, United States

Posted on: 2023-10-19

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

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About the company:

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

About Fluence: Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimization software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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OUR CULTURE AND VALUES

We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

We are Leading

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

We are Responsible

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We are Agile

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We are Fun

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Services Counsel- Americas, will have a leading role in administering the legal aspects of Fluence’s operation and maintenance service agreements for energy storage systems. This role will interface with internal teams, our customers, and our supply chain team. This role will support our Services team in honoring warranty obligations to our customers, and enforcing warranty claims against Fluence’s suppliers and vendors, all in strict compliance with the contractual requirements. This role will support our Americas Services team with the interpretation and enforcement of a portfolio of operation and maintenance contracts, management of related procurement and supply chain contracts, resolving problems and claims, and ultimately delivering our service offerings to our customers in strict compliance with the contractual requirements.

Fluence IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.

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As Services Counsel you will have the following responsibilities:

This role will support our Americas Services team with the interpretation and enforcement of a portfolio of operation and maintenance contracts, management of related procurement and supply chain contracts, resolving problems and claims, and ultimately delivering our service offerings to our customers in strict compliance with the contractual requirements.

This role will support our Services team in honoring warranty obligations to our customers, and enforcing warranty claims against Fluence’s suppliers and vendors, all in strict compliance with the contractual requirements.

In other words, you will be an in-house lawyer often with a customer-facing role, and responsible for great customer service.

What will our ideal candidate bring to Fluence?

You are agile, responsible, leading, and fun. (Hint: these are Fluence’s core values, and we mean it. Seriously.)

You have a minimum of five years of legal experience interpreting technically complex contracts, negotiating commercial claims, and resolving disputes. This should include experience with enforcing contracts, alternative dispute resolution, and litigation.

Ideally you also have experience with negotiating and drafting commercial claims as well as contract amendments and change orders.

You read legalese fluently, but you never speak legalese. You enjoy boring your family and friends with your vast knowledge of contractual provisions, warranty clauses and limitations of liability.

You probably began your career by laboring happily in a swanky law firm, but you also have been exposed to the joy of an in-house legal department.

You have excellent judgment, both in business and interpersonal matters, except you like lawyers. You can win a dispute for your client, and the other side thinks you are awesome. People sometimes tell you “Wow, I didn’t know lawyers could be cool.”

You have familiarity with renewable energies and/or the energy storage sector.

You have impeccable ethics and a commitment to compliance and safety. (We do not make jokes about compliance or safety.)

You are highly self-motivated work in your work style and are comfortable managing complex legal matters and external legal support.

You are licensed to practice law in the jurisdiction where you work.

Agile:

· This role will support the Americas region. The subject matter, technical details and personalities will be numerous and varied.

· This is hybrid role, with 2-3 days of remote work permitted. The office location for this role can either be in Arlington, Virginia or Alpharetta, Georgia, and occasional business travel should be expected.

· Most Fluence people wear multiple hats. On any given day you might provide overflow legal support on a variety of topics. Nobody at Fluence says “that’s not my job!”

· Spanish language skills would be a plus but not required.

Leading:

Fluence offers proven energy storage technology solutions designed to address the diverse needs and challenges of customers in a rapidly transforming energy landscape, providing design, delivery, integration and maintenance in over 160 countries. Fluence works closely with customers as their trusted advisor throughout their journey and provides advisory, financing, and project lifecycle services.

You aren’t expected to arrive at Fluence being an expert in energy storage. You’ll climb the learning curve quickly.

Our customers value us for our expertise, and this role will be interacting with customers frequently. Soon you’ll know more about energy storage than most other lawyers in the world.

Fluence

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Full time

Fluence

1010

Full time

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