Austin Powder

Senior Corporate Counsel

LocationCleveland, OH
Job Typefull_time

About This Job


Title:

Senior Corporate Counsel


Company

: Austin Powder Holding Company

Location:

25800 Science Park Drive, Cleveland, OH 44122


The Company:

In 1833, the Austin family founded the company to produce black powder that would help break the rock, mine the minerals and build the canals and railroads to develop the United States frontier. Initially located along the banks of the Cuyahoga River near Akron, Ohio, we grew as the country grew.

Today, Austin Powder is a world leader in the industrial explosives industry with a passionate commitment towards safety, a relentless customer focus, a family culture work environment, and a demonstration of respect towards all. As in our early years, our mission continues to be to improve the world we live in through the safe and responsible use of explosives.

The Company’s success has been based on its core values and this has proven to be universally true around the globe as the company has expanded to be one of the leading providers of industrial explosives and blasting services in the world.

We provide a broad range of highly engineered products and solutions – from bulk explosives, emulsion technology, a state-of-the-art detonator line up and software modeling solution to optimize blast design, all delivered as an integral part of our customer-centric blasting services business. Our products and solutions are developed to advance the safety, reliability, and efficiency of breaking rock to support our customers’ infrastructure and mining end markets.


The Position:

Austin Powder is seeking an experienced and highly motivated attorney to join our team. As a senior legal advisor for our organization, the Senior Corporate Counsel will play a crucial role in providing strategic legal guidance and competently managing complex legal issues. The ideal candidate will have a passion for helping our Company succeed and will have a proven track record of success in senior legal roles.

This role will proactively manage and advise on Austin Powder’s legal affairs including litigation, corporate governance, compliance, and risk. Strong familiarity with corporate governance, contracts, intellectual property, labor/employment, litigation, environmental and regulatory, antitrust, ERISA, corporate/securities, foreign corruption and compliance, and privacy matters, as well as general corporate management.


Duties & Responsibilities:

Manage of a broad array of legal, regulatory, compliance, and environmental matters across the Company.

Close alignment and cooperation with the senior management
Participate in critical governance and management of Austin Powder entities, including subsidiaries, business units, and distribution entities
Respond to safety-related incidents and/or investigations and implement corrective actions necessary to protect the Company and its employees.
Draft and negotiate customer contracts across the business in accordance with applicable delegations of authority. Facilitate legal and commercial sign-offs on all major corporate and commercial transactions and projects.
Support and review progress and management of intellectual property portfolio, developments, and strategies.
Promote Austin Powder SHES management safety system and participate in Company-led safety and compliance activities and initiatives.
Manage litigation matters, regulatory claims and proceedings, and internal and external investigations, with efficient use of internal resources and external counsel.
Provide legal support for major contracts and alliances, mergers and acquisitions, special projects, and strategic initiatives
Regularly train and advise key management and other appropriate personnel on critical company policies, governance, compliance, and legal matters.


Key Qualifications & Skills:

Bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctorate from accredited universities.
Member in good standing with the appropriate State Bar. Minimum of 8-10 years of law firm and/or in-house experience.
Excellent research, analytical, practical problem-solving skills, and oral and written communication skills
Superior leadership, communication, and negotiation skills
Proven track record in managing legal, governance, environmental, regulatory, compliance, and employment-related matters
Technological literacy in Microsoft products such as Word and Excel, and general familiarity with legal software solutions.


Key Leadership Attributes:

Align with Austin Powder’s core values. Embodies a “Winner’s Win” mentality. Has the self-confidence to communicate problems and ask for help when challenges arise
Ability to embrace and promote Austin Powder’s core values of safety, integrity, respect, customer focus, and innovation
Ability to work within a multi-cultural environment
Understand corporate governance obligations, and ability to actively participate in the direction of critical business entities
Highest standards of professional responsibility, ethics, and integrity
Ability to understand, respond to, and work to advise on commercial and management needs in addition to and in conjunction with legal competencies
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging environment
Ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, enthusiasm, and diplomacy both individually and collaboratively as part of a team
Ability to work in teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage multiple projects and deadlines
Strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to lead change and drive execution with a balance of honoring and respecting a successful near 200-year legacy


Key Relationships

AIP
Austin Powder GLT Members
Human Resources
Operational Business Units
Distributors and Customers
External Counsel
Regulatory and Government Agencies
Industry & Lobbying Organizations
Sales & Operations Personnel
Technology / R&D Departments


Location:

The position will be based in Cleveland, OH, with domestic and international travel required from time to time.

Austin Powder

is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Austin Powder also participates in E-Verify.


AUSTIN POWDER’s Mission

To improve the world, we live in through the safe and responsible use of explosives.


AUSTIN POWDER’s Vision

We will be the global leader of explosive products, services and technologies as defined by our Customers, our Family and our Communities.


AUSTIN POWDER’s Values

Safety is our 1st priority; We are customer focused; we leverage the Power of the Family; We treat everyone with respect.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proven leader to celebrate the company’s rich history beginning in 1833. This is a unique opportunity to drive future success of an iconic US industrial company through continued transformation of key manufacturing processes and continue to lead the organization to best in class performance levels and culture.

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