Paralegal (Start ASAP)

We're a people business, by joining Northrop you'll be able to build meaningful relationships with your colleagues, clients, and the community.

Who are we

Northrop Consulting Engineers is more than just a workplace. We encourage and support our people to excel both professionally and personally. An employee-owned, multidiscipline consultancy with an open management structure, we employ over 550 staff and operate across numerous offices in NSW, ACT, QLD, and VIC. When you join Northrop, you join a company that will support your career and help you to realise your potential.

Northrop believes that our employees are fundamental to the culture and success of the company. Our Graduates and Undergraduates enjoy working with us because we offer a challenging, diverse but rewarding work environment. 

We have recently been recognised in Prosple’ s Top 100 Graduate Employers in Australia. We are also very proud in winning five workplace awards based on surveyed graduates working in our business. These awards from Prosple recognise Northrop’s excellence in engineering consultancy across the categories of:

• Overall Graduate Satisfaction
• Employee Engagement
• Training
• Green Initiatives
• Social Responsibility

What we provide

We believe in developing our people by offering mentoring, coaching, and supporting your journey to realise potential. You’ll be empowered to learn and develop to find your area of passion. At Northrop we understand that the key to success is our people. Together we are creating a workplace that offers career development, employee benefits and values an inclusive culture.

• Excellent support including mentors, buddies and networking opportunities to connect with your peers across our various locations and disciplines.
• We are a people business, you’ll be able to build and foster meaningful relationships with your colleagues, clients, and the community.
• You’ll be empowered to learn and develop to find your area of passion.
• Develop our people by offering mentoring, coaching, and supporting your journey to realise your full potential.
• We are proud to have signed Australian Engineers Declare a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency declaration, giving you the opportunity to respond to the challenge.
• We care for our community and the environment; you will be involved in climate-resilient projects that meet our climate action goals.
• We offer income protection insurance & the ability to salary sacrifice
• Family time and support is essential, and we provide up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
• We offer alternative public holiday leave for those needing to substitute another day for a public holiday to celebrate a religious belief, etc.
• Employee Assistance Program Support
• Annual salary reviews
• Financial support for further training.

What you'll do 

• Under supervision – drafting various legal documents and reviewing contracts in line with risk management protocols.
• Under supervision – negotiations with internal and external stakeholders in line with risk management policy.
• Conducting legal research and industry-relevant material in a timely manner.
• Assist with compliance-related tasks such as monitoring regulatory and legislative changes and ensuring adherence to legal requirements.
• Compile, maintain and circulate to the team a “work in progress” register and update matter status for weekly team meetings.
• Liaise with appropriate internal stakeholders for the execution of documents.
• Maintain document execution register.
• Review incoming matters and coordinate and triage them within 48 hours.

We are committed to empowering you, to work on real projects with real responsibilities, early in your career. You will have the opportunity to develop to your full potential and beyond, alongside owners of the business. In addition to on-the-job training and being assigned a mentor, you will be provided with structured career development throughout your journey at Northrop.

Who can apply?

• Currently studying a Bachelor of Law is essential.
• Previous experience as a paralegal in a similar in-house position (desired, not essential).
• Strong research skills with great attention to detail.
• Experience in writing/preparing a variety of legal documents.
• High degree of professional ethics, confidentiality, and integrity.
• Proactively solves problems and makes decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop rapport and maintain effective relationships, internal and external to Northrop.
• Demonstrated ability to self-manage and prioritise workloads with sound project management skills including using initiative, problem solving and meeting objectives.

Next steps 

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we would love to hear from you! To apply, please complete the application form, ensuring that you provide:

• CV
• Most recent Academic Transcript
• Cover Letter that answers the following questions:
  • Q1. Why do you wish to join Northrop?
  • Q2. What do see as your strengths?
  • Q3. What are the areas that you feel you need more development?

To find out more, please visit the Early Careers page on our website.