Senior Casualty Risk Engineer

A leading global insurance business has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Casualty Risk Engineer to join a growing UK & Ireland Casualty Risk Engineering team.

Job Description

Reducing risks to our profitability:

• Respond to requests from underwriters for written assessments of the products, public and employers’ liability risks to our casualty policies, taking account of technical guidance and underwriting appetite. 
• Provide technical advice and training to enhance underwriters’ understanding of existing and emerging casualty risks. 
• Ensure the efficient and effective delivery of their outsourced employer’s liability survey programme and online Health & Safety resources.    
• Track risk improvements raised during the employers’ liability survey programme and validate the responses submitted by clients. 

Winning and retaining target accounts:

• Support new business acquisition, including technical input to sales proposals, client and broker presentations and site visits. 
• When necessary to inform underwriting decisions or to build client relationships, undertake site visits to evaluate health and safety and general liability hazards and controls
• Design, manage and deliver health and safety and general risk management proposals for key casualty accounts. 
• Deliver risk management services, either in person or by engaging and managing approved third-party providers. 

Building market presence:

• Develop innovative risk solutions to increase client engagement and support the strategic ambitions of the business, e.g. product and service development, training programmes and communication of risk engineering capabilities to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide wider technical support to external stakeholders, e.g. training, audits, marketing presentations, publications and Guidance Notes.

Qualifications

• You must have experience in casualty risk engineering or a related field, with an emphasis on relevant skills and successful project outcomes. Potential experience includes:
• A similar casualty risk engineering role with an insurance company or firm of brokers; or
• A senior technical or engineering role in industry, for example health and safety and/or quality management, with experience of stakeholder management; or
• Working in a regulatory or enforcement agency where investigation and enquiry across a wide range of industries forms a core part of the role; or
• A demonstrable understanding of liability risk management and a strong background in another relevant discipline, for example health and safety consultancy, underwriting, broking, claims handling or loss adjusting.