Our client is a large Insurer who provide Risk Engineering services to clients, which in turn help to improve risk selection and pricing of the risks.
The Technical Risk Engineer will act as an experienced resource to teams in Underwriting and Claims, Customers and the Risk Engineering Network for property, business interruption, natural hazards, liability, construction projects and machinery breakdown exposures.
Our client is specifically looking for someone from a Manufacturing or Industrial industry who has a degree in Engineering (ideally Mechanical Engineering).
The role of a Technical Risk Engineer comprises the following duties:
- Assessing Risk Quality and Quantum, for Property Damage and Business Interruption and/or Liability in order to assist Underwriters in Risk Selection. This will generally be prior to attachment or at renewal, following losses or acquisitions.
- Carrying out Risk Engineering Surveys of commercial and industrial sites, including production/processing, storage and other operational facilities both in the UK and worldwide, furnishing underwriters and/or the market with Risk Engineering Reports and the customer with Risk Improvement Recommendations.
- Attending Risk Engineering Surveys carried out by Brokers’ Engineers where possible, and validate their findings to underwriters and/or the market.
- Initiating and agreeing Risk Engineering programmes with key clients, such as office visits to review management practices and discuss risk engineering strategy and priorities.
- Representing the company as part of market proposition events.
- Advising underwriters on Engineering Risk Issues.
- Obtaining and/or developing Risk Engineering Methods as appropriate.
- Consulting and liaising with other underwriters’ engineers on Risk Engineering issues.
- To support claims validation and investigation processes
- To provide thought leadership and technical insight in to risk features of related industries, including lessons from losses
Candidates will ideally need to demonstrate the following requirements:
- You will be naturally inquisitive and have a consultative approach that will allow you to provide innovative solutions for our customers
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Operational industrial experience in a process environment in maintenance, or risk management role.
- Ideally experiences in molten metals or pulp and paper industries
- Membership of suitable engineering institute.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards.
- Good knowledge of processes safety and maintenance programmes
- Experience in one or more Risk, Reliability & Safety Engineering methodologies, e.g. HazOp, HazAn, Consequence Analysis, Root-Cause Analysis, FMECA etc.
- Ideally insurance knowledge e.g. risk management programmes, estimated maximum loss concepts and analysis etc.
- Technical report writing and production of technical insight documents
- Computer Literate (Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Databases, Application Programs)
- Ability to promptly research a technical issue, using technical references/contacts and report/articulate findings
- Significant experience working in an industrial environment in a mechanical or electrical, process safety or asset integrity/maintenance role.
The company can offer an attractive salary and company car, plus a generous benefits package including bonus and defined contribution pension scheme. They also offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities.
