Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

The role of Regional Canadian Counsel is a pivotal role to serve as in-house counsel for our Canadian operations. You will manage and review a variety of contracts, real estate transactions, regulatory matters along with managing litigation for Waste Managements Canadian Operations.

Your Law Degree, 8 or more years of experience and strong communication, drafting and negotiating skills will be key in this position.

Authorization to practice law in a Canadian province, Ontario or Quebec preferred, is strongly desired along with fluency in French. This role will travel up to 20% of the time.

This position will report to the Vice President of Legal Affairs for the Northern United States and Canada. This role can be located in either Ontario, Quebec or the US.


I. Job Summary
Serves as Waste Management’s in-house counsel for Canadian operations. This position drafts and reviews contracts and manages litigation, real estate transactions, and regulatory matters regarding WM’s Canadian operations and contracts. Also responsible for the management of outside counsel and coordination with WM’s United States based legal department located primarily in Houston Texas, but also other offices throughout the U.S. Will have regular communication and interaction with WM’s Canadian executive team serving as their primary legal advisor.

II. Essential Skills, Duties and Responsibilities include the following. To perform this job successfully, an individual must have the skills and be able to satisfactorily perform the duties and responsibilities set forth below. Other minor duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

Prepares, reviews and, negotiates legal documents on the Company’s behalf, and assists management in representing the organization in legal disputes and transactions.
Provides general legal advice and counsel to management (Corporate, Market Area and/or District level) for strategy and policy development. Reviews legal publications and pending legislation and advises management of changes that impact the Company, business and industry.
Conducts risk assessment in connection with customer, vendor, operations, industry and/or business issues. Advises management on most appropriate response or action.
Responsible for management of outside counsel activities as necessary, including determining effective business and legal strategy to address litigation and/or other specific operations or Company needs.
Provides proactive legal and practical business advice to internal clients.
Interfaces with numerous departments and functions within the Company to work effectively and provide a high-level of service to our business partners.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities
The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of managerial employees. This includes:


Direct supervision of 1 full-time employee

IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience
Education: Law degree
Experience: Eight (8) or more years of experience

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements
Authorization to practice law in a Canadian province, Ontario or Quebec preferred

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
Fluency in French preferred, but not required.
Strong drafting and negotiating skills.
Highly ethical, and values compliance and confidentiality.
Detail-oriented, prompt and highly organized.
Comfortable managing numerous tasks and prioritizing deadlines.
Excellent communications skills, both oral and written.
Team player.

V. Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc) most of the work day;
Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely;
Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc) rarely;
Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements rarely;
Normal setting for this job is: office setting.
Travel expected 10 to 20 %

Benefits
At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.




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