Legal Apprentice; Tokyo Electron Europe Ltd

Overview

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) spans the globe. Across Europe, North America, and the Far East, we work at the frontier of the semiconductor industry, providing state-of-the-art production equipment to leading manufacturers. For more information on the TEL Group, please visit the company website  Tokyo Electron Europe Limited (TEE), a subsidiary of Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL), is seeking a Legal Apprentice to join our Legal and Compliance team in delivering a first-class service to internal clients and stakeholders.

The role will be based in our European Headquarters near Gatwick Airport in the UK. As a member of the TEE Legal and Compliance team, you will provide support and deliver excellent legal assistance and day-to-day advice across TEE’s European operations. Whether drafting, reviewing, negotiating contracts, handling data protection queries, developing strategy, or identifying risk, the role will be fundamental in ensuring a high-quality service to the company.

The current four-person team is looking for an individual who is motivated to build a legal career working in a close-knit in-house legal team. The team’s work spans nine jurisdictions in Europe and Israel. Semiconductor manufacturing is a globally critical industry, with TEL’s customers being household name companies. Significant training and development opportunities will be provided to the candidate, as well as the potential for occasional business travel abroad.

The required skills can be taught to the right candidate, as long as there is a good aptitude for learning and an enthusiasm for new challenges.

• Support legal work for TEE across the UK and European business regions.
• Assist with reviewing and negotiating contracts.
• Advising internal clients about risks associated with different contracts.
• Managing files diligently using relevant software.
• Undertake legal research and horizon scanning.
• Support compliance and company secretarial work for TEE across the UK and European business regions.
• Support internal clients on employment-related matters.
• Review legal and compliance team policies and documentation.
• Advise internal clients on policies, procedures, regulatory, and ethical standards.
• Liaising with third parties to arrange documents for notarisation and apostille.
• Wider legal and compliance work – as needed.
• Deal promptly with internal client enquiries and correspondence.
• Arrange for the appropriate execution of documents electronically and by wet signature.
• Work towards relevant apprenticeship exams/legal qualifications as part of the apprenticeship.
• Occasionally travel to other TEE or TEL Group offices abroad as required.

Tokyo Electron is a leading global manufacturer of innovative production systems for the semiconductor industry. With a team of more than 17,000 employees in 18 different countries, we are continuously working on developing high-quality, technologically qualitative products. For more information on the TEL Group, please visit the company website

• Excellent written and spoken language skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office, in particular MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Professional and values honesty and integrity.
• English fluency, with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Well-organised, with good IT skills and ability to learn how to use new software quickly using own intuition and knowledge.
• Able to work to deadlines and multitask.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong appetite for training and development.
• A good team player, with the ability to collaborate and work independently.
• Self-starter who takes initiative and comes up with ideas to improve efficiency in work processes.
• Knowledge of any of the following languages is ideal but absolutely not a requirement:
  Japanese, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Hebrew.