We Go Beyond for A Safer World
Te Tūranga – The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Regional Counsel to join our global Legal team, based in Christchurch.
This role sits at the intersection of global strategy and regional delivery, supporting the Australian (TAP) Region while contributing to Tait's broader global objectives Reporting into Corporate, you will play a key role in enabling commercial outcomes by providing pragmatic, timely legal advice and ensuring alignment with Tait's policies, processes, and regulatory obligations.
You'll be a trusted advisor to General Managers and business leaders, bringing a balanced approach to risk and opportunity, and building strong, proactive relationships across the organization
The duties of the role will include:
Ō pūkenga – About You
You are an experienced legal professional with strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence and collaborate across a global organization You bring a pragmatic, solution-focused mindset and are comfortable navigating complexity while delivering clear and actionable advice.
As well as:
Ideally, you will also have:
Ngā painga - What's in it for you?
We are an employer that is committed to making a difference for families and communities and supporting people to build rewarding careers. We achieve this through employing people who connect with our Values (Commitment to listen, Courage to Act and Integrity to Deliver), which underpin how we work together. We are committed to investing in our people and supporting a high-performance culture.
Ko wai mātou – About Us
For more than 50 years, Tait Communications has been designing, delivering, and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transportation, and utility customers around the world. Founded in Christchurch by Sir Angus Tait, we now have a global presence spanning multiple regions.
Our people are at the heart of what we do. We are a collaborative; innovative organization committed to delivering technology that makes a real difference to the communities we serve
Ko koe pea tēnei? – Sound like your kind of role?
If you're ready to take the next step in your legal career and contribute to a high-performing, purpose-driven organization, we'd love to hear from you.
Please submit your CV and cover letter.
Applications will be assessed as they are received. Applications close on Monday 4th May 2026
For more information about our company, products and solutions, please visit: www.taitcommunications.com
Our clients protect communities, power cities, move citizens, harness resources and save lives all over the world. We work with them to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs.
Digital wireless communication forms the central nervous system of everything we do. Around this resilient, robust core we design, develop, manufacture, test, deploy, support and manage innovative communication environments for organizations that have to put their total trust in the systems and people they work with.
We’ve worked hard to develop genuine insight into our clients’ worlds, and have pursued engineering, operational and services excellence for more than 40 years. This understanding, and our belief in championing open-standards technology, means we can give our clients the best possible choice and value to achieve the human outcomes they’re driven by.
We’re not simply aligned with our clients; we’re devoted to their cause.
Tait Communications’ sole dividend receiving shareholder is a charitable trust which shares the company’s operating profits across several donation and investment streams responsible for research and development, regional reinvestment and education. This rare model means clients can rely on Tait Communications to be an independent long-term player in the critical communications industry and to continue to play its role of ‘open-standards champion’.
