Country Legal Counsel
Hitachi Energy
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Petaling Jaya
Contract type: Full time

The Opportunity
At Hitachi Energy, we are advancing a sustainable energy future for all. As a global leader in power and automation technologies, we deliver innovative solutions across the entire energy value chain—from generation and transmission to distribution. Our technologies enhance the safety, reliability, and efficiency of power networks while minimizing environmental impact. We are at the forefront of transformative developments in ultra-high-voltage transmission, battery energy storage, and smart grid solutions. We are now seeking a Legal Counsel to join our dynamic team in Malaysia, supporting our operations across Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects in a fast-paced, international environment.
How You’ll Make An Impact
We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us – in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules):
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.
With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.
Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.
At Hitachi Energy, we are advancing a sustainable energy future for all. As a global leader in power and automation technologies, we deliver innovative solutions across the entire energy value chain—from generation and transmission to distribution. Our technologies enhance the safety, reliability, and efficiency of power networks while minimizing environmental impact. We are at the forefront of transformative developments in ultra-high-voltage transmission, battery energy storage, and smart grid solutions. We are now seeking a Legal Counsel to join our dynamic team in Malaysia, supporting our operations across Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects in a fast-paced, international environment.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- You will provide strategic, commercially focused legal advice to support business operations and ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
- You will advise on a wide range of legal matters including contracts, tenders, corporate governance, and risk management.
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across the region and globally to ensure legal alignment with business objectives.
- You will ensure good corporate governance and adherence to integrity in the country including integrity training and ongoing monitoring of relevant policies.
- You will be providing legal support on ancillary matters including but not limited to data protection, intellectual property, insurance, M&A, trade finance and company secretarial matters, monitoring legal affairs of the business within the country, including litigation case management and co-ordination with external counsel.
- You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures and guidelines.
- Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
- A qualified lawyer with minimum 5 years of post-qualification experience, ideally in the energy, infra-structure, or technology sectors.
- Strong experience in contract negotiation, project development, and regulatory compliance.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a global matrix organization.
We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us – in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules):
- Employer-sponsored medical plan (inc. dental care)
- Employer provident fund (EPF) – employer and employee
- Group Term Life insurance, Group Personal Accident insurance, Group Business Travel insurance
- Hospitalization Insurance
- Leave programs (Annual leave, medical leave, Hospitalization leave, Exam leave etc.)
- Benefits are subject to the respective plan rules.
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.
With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.
Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.
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