Attorney V - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

**FirstEnergy at a Glance** FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is a diversified energy company dedicated to safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy comprises one of the nation’s largest investor-owned electric systems based on serving six million customers in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Our diverse generating fleet features non-emitting nuclear, scrubbed baseload coal, natural gas, and pumped storage hydro and other renewables. **About the Opportunity** This is a position with FirstEnergy Service Co., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. The Legal Department provides strategic counsel that enables FirstEnergy to advance business outcomes while managing legal, regulatory, and commercial risk across the company’s operating environment. The position will serve as a primary commercial legal advisor to business units, with a focus on transactions supporting data center customers, other large-load customers, and related economic development and infrastructure initiatives. The successful candidate will partner directly with business leaders, subject-matter experts within the Legal Department, outside counsel, and cross-functional stakeholders to structure, negotiate, draft, and manage sophisticated commercial agreements and related projects. The position reports to the Vice President, Associate General Counsel (Securities, Corporate, Finance, M&A, Commercial, Environmental, Benefits), who is located at the corporate headquarters in Akron, Ohio. **Key Responsibilities include:** - Lead and independently manage the negotiation, drafting, review, interpretation, and administration of customer-facing commercial agreements with a primary focus on data center and other large-load customers. - Support a broad range of commercial agreements, including electric service agreements, confidentiality agreements, letters of intent, memoranda of understanding, construction-related agreements, and related transactional documents. - Advise business clients on commercial, legal, operational, and reputational risk, and translate legal issues into practical solutions that support business objectives while protecting the company’s interests. - Partner with internal stakeholders to structure and close strategic transactions involving large customer load growth, utility service extensions, infrastructure buildouts, and economic development initiatives. - Work closely with regulatory, engineering, operations, customer, finance, construction, procurement, and executive teams to align contract terms with technical requirements, commercial goals, and risk tolerance. - Develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, standard forms, approval frameworks, and contracting processes that improve consistency, speed, and scalability across large-load transactions. - Monitor emerging legal, regulatory, market, and operational developments affecting data centers, hyperscale growth, interconnection, power procurement, infrastructure delivery, and large-load customer contracting, and advise the business proactively. - Manage specialized outside counsel as needed to support construction, real estate, financing, regulatory, and other transaction-specific matters efficiently and strategically. - Support the company’s broader strategic growth and economic development efforts by helping create legally sound, business-friendly structures that support reliable service and long-term customer relationships. - Provide training, guidance, and thought leadership to internal clients on contracting standards, negotiation strategy, legal risk, and best practices for commercial execution. **Required Qualifications** - Juris Doctor from an accredited law school. - Active license to practice law in the United States and good standing with at least one state bar; ability to qualify for Ohio bar admission or corporate counsel registration in Ohio within six months. - Five or more years of legal experience, or equivalent experience…