Generalist Specialist - Attorney

“Generalist Specialist” attorney for an in-house position at Kinetica Partners, LLC, a midstream natural gas transportation company.  Kinetica has three operational subsidiaries.  Two subsidiaries are regulated by the FERC: Kinetica Energy Express, LLC; and, Kinetica Deepwater Express, LLC; and one that is not rate regulated, Kinetica Midstream Express, LLC.

www.kineticallc.com

Position will be based in Houston, TX and Houma, LA, but some travel between offices and company facilities is required – corporate office is in Houston, main operations office is in Houma.  Company facility operations happen on the near onshore and in the offshore waters of Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico from the Sabine River to near Mobile Bay. 

The employee team is made up of about 50 FTE who work in pipeline operations and related facilities onshore and offshore and 20 who work in offices in accounting, business development and other management functions

Requirements and Expectations of the Position:

Strong sense of curiosity and the willingness to learn are mandatory

5 to 10 years experience practicing law

Regulated industry experience preferred

Some experience in and knowledge of FERC regulation preferred, but other experience will be considered

Midstream and construction industry experience very helpful

Experience managing insurance coverage and related issues very helpful

Business experience preferred – preferably in construction or commercial transactions

Familiarity with managing HR issues in a smaller (less than 100 FTE) company would be helpful.  Must be able to assist with terminations

Solid writing skills are mandatory

Must be able to collaborate and communicate in person and in writing with clarity, economy and precision to senior management, pipeline hands, office personnel and transactional counterparties.

Day-to-day contract and communication language drafting and review will be a core responsibility

Support for business development, construction projects and asset transactions will be a core responsibility

Transactions run the gambit from small procurements to significant asset acquisitions

Risk Tolerance – Expectations for Successful Candidate 

Kinetica Partners’ Chairman of the Board, Troy Eckard, is a very successful oil and gas industry entrepreneur who plans to build Kinetica from its current state as a mature startup into the central element of a much larger operation.  This is a position for someone comfortable with collaboratively managing legal issues in a prudently structured risk taking environment.  Those with the notion that all risk can or must be written out of a transaction will not be effective in this position or, for that matter, comfortable performing the core requirements of this position.