Risk Engineer or Senior Risk Engineer- East Region (Hybrid- remote and in-office)
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About the Role We are looking for either a Risk Engineer or Senior Risk Engineer to join our Risk Engineering Services – Property Team.
- Serve as an Account Engineer for customers whose property insurance programs are written out of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' North America Region.
- Develop customer service plans, negotiate fees, coordinate account field servicing to be done either by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' own risk engineers or by trusted service partners.
- Closely interact with customers, underwriters, and brokers as part of the production, underwriting, and servicing lifecycle of accounts.
- Collaborate with and advise underwriters on risk quality and exposure of existing accounts and new business, to achieve a 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).
- 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 external loss control and internal underwriting information reports and review project plans.
- Work in close collaboration with the Customer Distribution Management and Claims departments while servicing existing customers or prospecting new business.
- Engineering degree - mechanical / electrical / 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
- Expertise in property loss prevention and loss control for a broad range of industries and commercial businesses (i.e. - general manufacturing, plastic working, food, real estate, retail, warehousing, metal working, health care, hospitality, etc.)
- Specialized industry expertise / experience (i.e. – chemical, pulp & paper, steel, automotive, pharmaceutical, telecom, semiconductor, etc.)
- Strong understanding and expertise associated with Natural Catastrophe exposures – Earthquake / Flood / Windstorm / etc.
- 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 practice, with a strong understanding of business interruption exposure, in its various forms (CBI, IBI, etc).
- 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
- 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.
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 and their passion for sustainability.
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.
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