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About the Role

Ferrovial Construction is seeking a Deputy General Counsel, Procurement to provide senior legal leadership for the procurement and pursuit of complex transportation and infrastructure projects. This role serves as a strategic business partner, advising on procurement strategy, proposal development, joint venture structures, risk allocation, subcontracting, and commercial negotiations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior legal adviser for business development, estimating, procurement, and project leadership during pursuits and procurements.
Provide practical guidance on commercial strategy, risk allocation, procurement structures, and contracting approaches for major transportation and infrastructure opportunities.
Communicate significant risks and recommendations to executive leadership.
Lead legal support for procurements involving state departments of transportation, other public agencies, and private-sector owners.
Advise on owner requirements, procurement restrictions, certifications, approvals, records obligations, audit rights, and project-specific procurement procedures.
Provide legal support throughout the pursuit lifecycle, including RFQs, RFPs, invitations to bid, bidder exceptions, clarifications, alternative technical concepts, procurement communications, proposal compliance reviews, risk assessments, award recommendations, and contract-award negotiations.
Structure, draft, review, and negotiate joint venture agreements, limited liability company agreements, teaming agreements, memoranda of understanding, governance arrangements, delegated authority provisions, deadlock mechanisms, funding commitments, guarantees, indemnities, defaults, exits, and dispute-resolution provisions.
Identify material commercial, contractual, and procurement risks and develop practical mitigation strategies.
Guide matters through project, joint venture, and corporate approval processes.
Analyze owner contracts, procurement documents, and pursuit commitments and translate applicable requirements into joint venture structures, procurement strategies, and downstream agreements.
Ensure alignment of schedule, payment, change, claims, audit, safety, quality, environmental, Buy America, disadvantaged-business-enterprise, prevailing-wage, insurance, bonding, warranty, indemnity, and dispute-resolution obligations.
Develop procurement strategies and lead the preparation, review, and negotiation of major subcontracts, purchase agreements, supply agreements, professional-services agreements, equipment agreements, and other critical commercial arrangements.
Advise on agreements with designers, engineers, consultants, and other professional service providers.
Support compliance with public-procurement laws, ethics and conflict-of-interest requirements, anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, lobbying restrictions, sanctions, third-party diligence requirements, disadvantaged-business-enterprise commitments, prevailing-wage requirements, and applicable federal and state funding obligations.
Collaborate with Insurance, Surety, Finance, and project teams to evaluate and structure bonding requirements, parent guarantees, letters of credit, insurance programs, subcontractor default insurance, and other security arrangements.
Develop and maintain procurement templates, clause libraries, playbooks, approval tools, flow-down matrices, training materials, and best practices.
Support the transition from procurement to project execution by advising on notices, change management, payment provisions, schedule impacts, defaults, terminations, records preservation, and other contract-administration issues.
Support procurement-related disputes and investigations, including subcontractor, supplier, consultant, joint venture, bid protest, and public-contract matters.
Assist with strategy development, document preservation, factual investigations, privilege considerations, and management of outside counsel.

Requirements

Ability to travel periodically to state departments of transportation, other public agencies, and private-sector owners and other locations as business needs require.
Practical, responsive, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple high-value procurements and competing deadlines independently.
Strong business judgment, negotiation skills, and the ability to translate complex owner and joint venture requirements into practical procurement guidance.
Familiarity with federal or state funding requirements, Buy America requirements, disadvantaged-business-enterprise commitments, prevailing-wage requirements, and public-procurement compliance is preferred.
Experience working with joint venture boards, management committees, project executives, procurement personnel, and cross-functional corporate teams is strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of public-contract flow-down requirements and construction risk allocation, including payment, schedule, changes, claims, indemnity, insurance, bonding, guarantees, warranties, audit, records, compliance, and dispute resolution.
Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating joint venture agreements, teaming agreements, governance arrangements, subcontracts, purchase agreements, design or professional services agreements, and other complex project procurement documents.
Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar is preferred.
Direct experience supporting state departments of transportation, other public agencies, and private-sector owners and with significant joint venture, consortium, or teaming-agreement experience is preferred.
15+ years of legal experience, including substantial experience with procurement and contract matters for transportation, heavy civil, infrastructure, engineering, or similarly complex project-based businesses is preferred.

Skills

Procurement strategy
Proposal development
Joint venture structuring
Risk allocation
Subcontracting
Commercial negotiations
Contract drafting
Contract negotiation
Public procurement requirements
Joint venture agreements
Teaming agreements
Subcontracts
Supplier agreements
Professional services agreements
Buy America requirements
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) commitments
Prevailing wage requirements
Insurance
Surety
Security arrangements

Location

Austin, Texas

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

15+ years of legal experience

Education Level

Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar

Salary/Compensations

Competitive base salary and bonus potential

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits
401(k) match up to 6%
Continuing legal education and licensure reimbursement

About the Company

Ferrovial is a global leader in infrastructure, solving complex problems and generating positive outcomes.
Ferrovial is leading the development of the New Terminal One at JFK International Airport.
Ferrovial shares trade under the ticker symbol FER on Nasdaq (Nasdaq100 Index) and Spanish Stock Exchanges (IBEX 35).
Ferrovial is included in globally recognized sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Index.
Ferrovial operates in more than 15 countries with over 22,000 professionals worldwide.
Ferrovial's activity is carried out through its business units: Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.
Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure.
Ferrovial Construction's track-record includes extensive work in tunnels, roads, highways, railroad lines, and road maintenance.
Ferrovial offers a collaborative culture that values each member of the team.
Ferrovial provides opportunities for professional growth in a company that values innovation and sustainability.
Ferrovial is motivated by challenges and collaborates across business units to move the world together.

Equal Opportunity

Ferrovial is an equal opportunity employer.
We treat all job applications equally, regardless of gender, color, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, covered veteran status or protected genetic information, or any other protected class in accordance with applicable laws.