Senior/Principal Associate - Transactional Construction, Hills Rd

Are you an experienced Construction Solicitor looking for a new opportunity with a top ranked, national Construction team? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

The role

We're looking for a talented construction solicitor to join our market-leading national construction practice. This is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career at a top-ranked firm, and to support a top-ranked team.

You'll work on complex and innovative projects across the private and public sectors. Our diverse client base includes central government departments, world-leading universities, contractors, consultants, developers and institutional investors.

Our established Cambridge practice advises on some of the most significant construction and infrastructure projects. With ambitious growth plans and a thriving pipeline of complex, high-value projects, you'll join a collaborative, forward-thinking team at the heart of one of the UK's most dynamic markets. Help us deliver innovative solutions and drive success in the construction sector.

You will enjoy working as part of a great team across our offices with excellent support from our executive assistants and regular training and updates from our construction team in-house senior legal advisor, Alison Garrett. You will also play a role in our business development activities - including helping with our construction blogs (.

As a team (and a firm), we pride ourselves on outstanding client service and commercial, cost-effective advice. You will play a key role in this, including scoping and agreeing the cost of any matter and ensuring it is delivered on time and on budget.

The person

You will ideally be 5+ PQE and have an experienced background in construction work gained post-qualification.

This role will require someone who;

has excellent attention to detail and good research skillsprides themselves on providing quality client carehas the ability to build relationships with clients and potential clientsis enthusiastic and hard-workingis pro-active and flexible in their approachpossesses excellent interpersonal and team skills, including ability to work with othershas excellent written English and numeracy skillshas strong IT skills and literacy, including good knowledge of MS Officehas the ability to work under pressure with good time and document management skills

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The benefits

As you'd expect, we offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits.
Our values are the principles that help us fulfil our purpose. Our people shaped them and live them every day.
•We're ambitious- We aim high, we embrace new ideas and we're passionate about our work
•We're open- We communicate openly and honestly to build trust, and we do what's right
•We care- We're committed to each other, our clients, our communities and the planet
•We collaborate- We're easy to work with, we offer help willingly and we get things done - together

And finally

Everyone at Mills&Reeve brings a unique perspective and ideas to the team and we do everything we can to help each person to thrive. We're committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment, are happy to consider flexible working arrangements, and want to achieve the right balance for both our people and the firm. We encourage everyone to ask if they feel they need any workplace adjustments, and will do our best to support with these.

To find out more about our diversity and inclusion work,