Legal Counsel, Risk and Compliance | Melbourne

My client is an energy infrastructure organisation playing a central role in delivering transmission and renewable energy infrastructure for Australia’s energy transition. They are taking on expanded statutory and regulatory functions, and they need a Legal Counsel to help shape how they manage their own obligations.

What you’ll be doing

- Advising on regulatory, governance, administrative law and statutory compliance matters
- Designing and uplifting the legal and regulatory compliance framework, including obligations registers, policies and breach reporting
- Supporting compliance monitoring for a recent grid access regime
- Leading public sector compliance across FOI, privacy, procurement probity and integrity
- Partnering with the enterprise risk team and reporting to the Executive,



Board and Audit and Risk Committee

What you’ll bring

- Admission as an Australian lawyer, with around 4 to 8 years’ PQE
- Regulatory, compliance or governance experience in energy, utilities, infrastructure or government
- Hands‑on experience building compliance frameworks, not just advising on them
- Knowledge of the NEM, transmission or energy regulation is a strong advantage, but not essential

Why it’s worth a look

- Genuine impact on the infrastructure replacing ageing coal generation
- Board and Executive visibility early on
- A growing team, ongoing role and hybrid working

📌 Legal Counsel (Melbourne)
🏢 Enemix
📍 Melbourne