Legal Counsel Zama

Date: 21 Apr 2026

Location:

Mexico City, MX

Advertised Salary: Competitive

Onshore/Offshore: Onshore

Working arrangement: Full Time

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies. Today, Harbour is producing between 475,000 and 485,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices.

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you?

If so, we want to hear from you.

Purpose of Role:
• To provide professional, timely, cost-effective and practical legal advice and support Zama project in its day-to-day legal affairs.
• To work as part of a team giving direct support to the Head of Legal of Mexico Business Unit in the management and oversight of the legal and commercial activities of the Zama project.
• The position is a first step into a management role to enable the development of leadership skills.

Critical Responsibilities (MAE/MATTE/HSES):

• Ensure that all activities are executed safely and responsibly, in full compliance with applicable regulations and the company’s HSES standards, preventing Major Accident Events (MAE) and Major Accidents to the Environment (MATTE).

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Act in full alignment with the company’s Ethics and Compliance framework and complete all required compliance training.

• Promote integrity and transparency in contract negotiations and execution.
• Supervise adherence to anti-corruption policies and conflict-of-interest prevention.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Work together with a team of legal professionals appropriately and effectively provide advice and encouragement to help them attain excellent results for the business and themselves.

• A high degree of accountability, tact and diplomacy with strong collaboration skills internally and externally, as well as a highly visible and accessible style with a “can-do” attitude, focused on looking for solutions

• Proactively contribute to the delivery of the scorecard, ensuring legal risks and commercial opportunities are managed appropriately.

• Provide pragmatic and practical advice and guidance to the Zama project on all legal matters.

• Contribute to and lead the assessments of risk on significant commercial opportunities, business decisions and HSES.

• Effectively communicate all relevant legal policies, processes and procedures within the Zama project.

• Effectively draft, negotiate and review a wide variety of commercial and Supply Chain agreements and proactively handle various matters through to resolution.

• Manage external legal advisers within budget and at the required quality.

• Ability to manage, implement and respond positively to change in an adaptive, innovative and flexible manner and in clear consultation with others.