Join the largest privately held recycling and composting company in the U.S., helping businesses and municipalities transform waste into valuable resources that return to the supply chain. With 35+ recycling and organics processing facilities nationwide and a rapidly growing infrastructure network, the organization combines advanced technology with large-scale environmental impact while fostering a culture focused on innovation, sustainability, professional growth, and operational excellence.
The Senior Corporate Counsel will play a key role in building and advancing the legal department while advising facility leadership and executives on commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, risk, and day-to-day legal matters. Based in New York City, this highly visible role is ideal for a hands-on corporate generalist with deep experience in industrial, manufacturing, recycling, organics, or materials management who can combine legal judgment with practical business insight.
Responsibilities
- Oversee legal matters supporting facilities across the U.S., including commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, risk, and dispute resolution.
- Draft and negotiate agreements involving government entities, vendors, customers, commodities, transportation, technology, financing, procurement, NDAs, and other business relationships.
- Advise on environmental, health, and safety matters involving OSHA and federal, state, and municipal regulatory agencies.
- Support M&A transactions, integrations, real estate, intellectual property, cybersecurity, privacy, labor and employment, insurance, and sustainability matters.
- Partner with executive and cross-functional leadership to identify legal risks and develop practical solutions supporting growth and operational objectives.
- Represent the organization before state and federal regulatory bodies and related organizations.
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments affecting operations and advise stakeholders on business implications.
- Develop legal playbooks, templates, policies, procedures, compliance programs, and training.
- Manage outside counsel and specialized legal resources while maintaining appropriate oversight of legal expenses.
- Improve legal processes and infrastructure as the organization and legal department continue to grow.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as a licensed attorney required.
- J.D. from an accredited law school required.
- Active license to practice law in New York required; additional state bar admissions preferred.
- Extensive legal experience supporting industrial, manufacturing, services, recycling, organics, waste, or materials-management operations.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex commercial transactions and negotiating contracts and agreements.
- Corporate and/or commercial transactions counsel experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with environmental, regulatory, compliance, and operational legal matters.
- Experience with Ironclad or a comparable Contract Lifecycle Management platform and Microsoft Office.
- Experience within waste, recycling, or organics strongly preferred.
- Experience contracting with municipalities or recycling facilities preferred.
- Combination of in-house and top-tier law firm experience preferred.
- Experience building a legal function or supporting a high-growth, startup, public, or private equity-backed organization preferred.
- Ability to work in New York City and travel periodically to operating locations.
