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BOCCARD

Industrial turnkey constructor for plants

Juriste d'affaires Senior Energy

Full-TimePosted on 10/21/2026
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Villeurbanne, France
Hybrid10 days on-site per month.
LegalLegal Counsel & Legal Support

About the job

Requirements
  • A higher legal qualification, specifically a Master II in business law or equivalent.
  • At least 6–10 years of experience in an industrial and international environment on large-scale projects.
  • Strong ability to negotiate and draft national and international contracts.
  • Fluent legal English is essential.
  • Pragmatic business-law expertise to advise leaders and operational teams on contracts, legal advice, pre-litigation, and litigation.
  • Relational skills, including the ability to assert a position tactfully.
Responsibilities
  • Advise leaders and operational teams on legal issues, including commercial law, industrial subcontracting, co-contracting and partnerships, and international business law.
  • Review, draft, and negotiate national and international contracts, and provide legal support for tenders and major industrial projects, including EPC projects, partnership or consortium contracts, industrial subcontracting and procurement, industrial maintenance, and financial guarantees.
  • Lead and manage pre-litigation and judicial or arbitral disputes in France and internationally, working with law firms and experts.
  • Deliver training to operational teams to improve their legal skills.
  • Lead cross-functional projects within the global Legal, Compliance and Insurance Department, including creating and updating standards, tools, contract libraries, and contract policies; implementing legal design; and managing export controls.
Desired Qualifications
  • A specialized master's qualification, business school qualification, LLM, or DJCE.
  • Experience with FIDIC and NEC contracts, common law or U.S. law, and French public procurement law.

About the company

Boccard designs, builds, and maintains industrial plants across energy and life sciences, handling engineering, fabrication, construction, and aftercare as a single package. Its work includes nuclear, oil and gas, power, steel and mining projects, plus brewery, food, cosmetics, pharma, and biotech facilities, with products like stainless steel tanks, bioreactors, mixers, and modular skids. It uses digital tools such as 3D laser scanning and its BocTrack system to manage prefab and project data, supporting lifecycle asset management and total cost of ownership (TCO). The company differentiates itself with a long family-led history since 1918, global expansion, deep sector expertise, and integrated EPC services designed to optimize cost over the plant's life and across international projects.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Villeurbanne, France

Founded

1956

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What believers are saying

  • Sizewell C awarded Boccard UK a four-year PTS contract on July 20, 2026.
  • Boccard’s Olsztyn bioprocess platform opens October 14, 2026, expanding biopharma sales.
  • September 14, 2026 messaging targets neurological therapies, signaling stronger life-sciences demand.

What critics are saying

  • Sizewell C dominates headlines; any 2026-2030 delay starves Boccard’s Deeside factory.
  • Alliance procurement with Balfour Beatty, Laing O'Rourke, and Bouygues compresses margins immediately.
  • A nuclear or biopharma downturn strands specialized welders, bioreactors, and modular-skid capacity.

What makes BOCCARD unique

  • Family ownership since 1918 sustains long-horizon execution and client trust.
  • Boccard integrates engineering, fabrication, construction, and maintenance across plant lifecycles.
  • Deeside and Olsztyn showcase digital modular fabrication for nuclear and bioprocessing.

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