Risk Engineer or Senior Risk Engineer- Central Region

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Risk Engineer to join our Risk Engineering Services - North America - Property Team.

The candidate selected for the role will:

• Support Swiss Re's - Central Region portfolio and continued growth in direct insurance, primary lead business, and international business. Serve in an account engineer role supporting both bound business and in pursuing new business.
• Collaborate with and advise underwriters on risk quality and exposure of existing accounts and new business, in order to achieve preferable risk selection. This is done by reviewing, interpreting, and summarizing risk assessments conducted by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions risk engineers, by service partners, as well as third party technical risk information (desktop risk assessment).
• Closely interact with clients and brokers as part of the production / underwriting / servicing team of Swiss Re's Central Region.
• Perform account engineering functions including developing customer service plans, negotiating fees, coordinating field servicing, service partner management and interacting with the underwriter, broker and client to serve and meet the needs of our customers.
• On occasion, conduct on-site risk assessments and operations reviews to verify our customers' or prospect customer's risk mitigation approaches and to provide customers with risk improvement suggestions.
• Prepare loss control reports, underwriting account assessment reports, written project and plan reviews for both commercial and manufacturing occupancies.
• Work in close collaboration with the Customer Distribution Management and Claims departments while servicing existing customers or prospecting new business.

About You

The ideal candidate should have:

• An engineering degree - preferably chemical / mechanical / industrial / civil (Equivalent experience/degree can be considered)
• Risk Engineer: Recommended three to five years loss prevention experience in North America as a field engineer and/or some experience as an account engineer
• Sr. Risk Engineer: Recommended seven to ten years loss prevention experience in North America as a field engineer along with experience serving as an account engineer
• Property insurance background, or combination of property insurance and industrial experience.
• Knowledge of layout and construction, fire protection systems (sprinkler systems, alarm systems, etc.) and human element property conservation programs (i.e. Hot Work Permit Program, Fire Protection Impairment Supervision Program, etc.) is fundamentally important.
• Strong understanding and expertise associated with NatCat exposures - Earthquake / Flood / Windstorm / etc.
• Expertise in property loss prevention and loss control for a broad range of industries and commercial businesses, including general manufacturing, plastic working, food, real estate, retail, warehousing, metal working, technology, health care, and hospitality.
• Specialized industry expertise / experience in the following industries: chemical, steel, automotive, pharmaceutical, telecom, semiconductor, and forestry (woodworking and pulp & paper).
• Specialized expertise / experience in the chemical industry and process safety management and process hazard analysis is a plus.
• Machinery breakdown experience / expertise is a plus.
• Working knowledge of NFPA standards as well as practical knowledge of Factory Mutual data sheets or similar Highly Protected Risk (HPR) standards
• Ability to develop maximum possible loss, anticipated loss potential and normal loss potential scenarios in line with property insurance industry practices
• Link loss prevention expertise with loss experience to enable emerging loss trends analysis and collaboration across RES, underwriting and claims
• Experience / expertise with data analytics, benchmarking, portfolio risk management and/or automation capabilities
• Strong customer facing and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proficient computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office products)
• Business sense, team player, customer commitment & service mindset

International Programs Expertise

In this role, the candidate selected will have to serve as account engineer for international programs, either on North America borne accounts or on reverse flow accounts from other regions whose servicing is required in North America. Therefore, the ideal candidate should also have:

• Experience with servicing International Program business customers including a full complement of service offerings (i.e. - global fronting, and lead risk engineering services).
• Knowledge in developing fee for service risk engineering proposals and quotations on global programs.
• Expertise in working with a global risk engineering network and providing risk engineering support for global customers.
• Ability to work with a variety of global loss prevention standards.

About the Team

As a member of our global Risk Engineering Services (RES) team, you will contribute to various projects and papers involving best practices, guidelines, underwriting costing, industry updates, as well as conducting seminars and technical training sessions. This team approach also allows engineers to provide support and step in for missing expertise/resource gaps at other RES locations (globally).

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.

During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.

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