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Powerlink is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our Community, Land & Approvals legal team at a pivotal time for major infrastructure delivery in Queensland.
We’re working at the heart of Queensland’s energy transformation. Now more than ever, we need people who want to help us deliver a world-class energy future and ensure we continue to navigate through this once in a generation energy challenge.
We believe every employee deserves the opportunity to enjoy a work-life balance that enhances their overall wellbeing and performance through inclusive and supportive benefits.
As a Senior Legal Counsel you’ll help us connect a more sustainable energy future for more than five million Queenslanders and 241,000 businesses. Your work with us is about every light turned on, every community connected, and every future made possible.
This role provides senior specialist legal advice on environmental approvals, EPBC Act matters, Native Title and Cultural Heritage, community engagement and property for some of the State’s most significant energy projects.
This is a specialist, in-house, Senior Legal Counsel role in Powerlink’s Community, Land & Approvals (CLA) legal team to be our internal legal expert in:
You will play a critical role in managing approval risk, supporting legislative reform readiness, engaging with regulators and First Nations stakeholders, and strengthening Powerlink’s in house legal capability.
This is a rare opportunity for a senior environment and approvals lawyer who wants to work closely with the business, influence outcomes early and help shape how major projects are delivered in a complex regulatory landscape.
As a Senior Legal Counsel, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping legal strategy and enabling business success across Powerlink. You will:
This role offers the opportunity to work with alongside an experienced in-house legal team and further develop your specialisation in Native Title, Cultural Heritage and Environmental advice and approvals. You will work closely with leaders across Powerlink, providing proactive, commercially focused legal advice that shapes strategic decisions across the organisation.
Based in our Virginia office in Brisbane, you’ll join a forward-thinking Legal team within Powerlink’s Finance Governance and Supply Division—an environment where your expertise will be valued and your impact felt. Reporting to the Lead Legal Counsel – Community, Land & Approvals, you’ll collaborate with passionate legal professionals who are trusted advisors across the business and work in a collaborative, values driven in-house environment.
This is a team that thrives on solving complex challenges, shaping strategic outcomes, and driving innovation in legal service delivery. You’ll be empowered to grow, contribute meaningfully, and help influence the future of energy in Queensland.
Significant Post Admission Experience with deep specialist experience in one or more of the following:
Demonstrated experience advising on major infrastructure or energy projects, ideally within government, utilities or regulated environments.
Proven ability to manage high risk approvals and regulator / external stakeholder engagement in complex, evolving legislative settings.
Ideally you will have additional knowledge and/ or experience in:
Essential qualifications:
Strong stakeholder management skills are also crucial for effective collaboration with various parties involved.
To kick start your career at Powerlink, apply by clicking the button above, attaching your resume and cover letter on our careers page before midnight on Tuesday, 7 April, 2026 Please be aware our recruitment team will commence the review process during this period.
To discuss any adjustment requirements or for more information on the role, contact Klaas van Noord at klaas.vannoord@powerlink.com.au.
You are welcome here at Powerlink, regardless of sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
As part of our Reconciliation Action Plan, we’re committed to building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Successful applicants will undergo necessary pre-employment checks. As part of our commitment to maintaining a positive candidate experience, we pledge to provide a timely response to all applicants.
Powerlink acknowledges the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the skies, lands, and waters of Queensland and in particular, the lands on which we operate.
Powerlink Queensland (Powerlink) is a leading Australian provider of high voltage electricity transmission network services, combining innovation with insight to deliver safe, cost-effective and reliable solutions.
We are a Government Owned Corporation (GOC) that owns, develops, operates and maintains the high voltage electricity transmission network in Queensland.
Our network extends 1,700 kilometres (km) from Cairns to the New South Wales (NSW) border and comprises 15,559 circuit km of transmission lines and 154 substations.
Our purpose is to connect Queenslanders to a world-class energy future, providing electricity to more than five million Queenslanders and 241,000 businesses.
Through our unique central position in the power system, Powerlink is guiding the market to help influence the energy system of the future – one that balances customer needs while transforming to a future comprising a diverse array of generation and storage technologies.
Powerlink’s network serves as the platform for the provision of energy services while maintaining a sharp focus on safety, affordability and reliability of supply for our customers.
As well as connecting large generators to end-use customers through the distribution networks owned by Energex and Ergon Energy (part of the Energy Queensland Group), and Essential Energy (in northern NSW), we also provide electricity directly to large industrial customers such as rail companies, mines and mineral processing facilities.
As a Transmission Network Service Provider (TNSP), we link to the National Electricity Market (NEM) via the Queensland/NSW Interconnector (QNI) transmission line. Most of Powerlink’s network is regulated by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) under the National Electricity Law and the National Electricity Rules (NER).
