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This is a Senior Property Risk Engineer, International role with one of the leading companies in AU right now -- Everest -- with an amazing team. They are continuing to grow rapidly. This is the chance to join right as the takes off.
More About the Role at Everest
Job Description: Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance organization with extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focus on creating long term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. At Everest, we believe that our future is determined by the actions we take today. Actions that go beyond business strategy and encompass the values important to our employees and the communities in which we operate. Everest’s value commitments include providing an inclusive work environment that offers employees the opportunity to further their development, supporting our communities through the donation of time and financial resources, maintaining our integrity across all aspects of the group, and being an industry innovator to solve global complex risks. Role Overview This role is a unique opportunity to join our developing risk engineering team and release your full potential. Far from long time established and set in stone processes, you will proactively participate in building the way our risk engineering works and performs in supporting underwriting processes and loss control. Your imagination will be as important as your experience and communication skills. Successfully collaborating with underwriters and engineers from all offices to create and deliver worldclass risk engineering services will guarantee your international visibility. This role will initially focus on Property and might develop to cover Mining activities at a later stage. Core Responsibilities As an Everest International Senior Property Risk Engineer, you will: - Provide risk engineering services for Property underwriters in all Everest International offices, with a focus on heavy manufacturing industries such as food, automotive, pharma, and light chemicals. - Support the Everest business by delivering risk assessment and prevention services to facilitate account retention and business growth. - Be a strong sales asset by supporting prospect client specific sales strategy and activities. - Conduct risk management services including risk assessment, desktop and accounts reviews, loss expectancies calculations, attendance at client roadshows and meetings, attend and conduct site surveys, develop risk improvement recommendations, loss reviews, account service plans and other work for the Property department. - Manage external risk Consulting service providers. - Develop in conjunction with the underwriting team and the risk engineering function a risk management structure including pre-bind assessment reports, a risk grading tool, loss estimate guidelines including use of external modelling tools, and other risk management capabilities. - Be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key brokers and Clients in close partnership and support of our Lines of Business and underwriters in each country and with Country Heads. - Develop and maintain service instructions, reference materials, training guides, service tools and standard recommendations. - Development and management of publications and website content. - Assure the timely delivery of quality work cost-effectively, meeting department performance metrics. - Contribute to Underwriting guidelines, research, manage emerging issues and assess business opportunities and prospective insured submissions. - Maintain existing value-added services or develop new services to meet customer expectations. - Provide marketing support including materials and presentations. Deliver technical presentations where required. - Participate in department initiatives & planning sessions to address emerging issues, business opportunities, and corporate directives. - Effectively communicate with management on all issues both within and outside the Unit as needed. - Interact and coordinate activities with other departments (e.g., Claims, Market Management, and other lines of business). - Recommend new procedures and programs where warranted. - Monitor regulatory, science and technology developments and link with risk evolution. Periodic issuance of Everest technical update bulletins. - Monitor losses to feed underwriters and risk assessment process; update standard recommendations accordingly. - Work with risk engineering dedicated to other lines of business to align risk engineering processes and tools to implement a global “One Everest” approach. - Share experience, knowledge and documents with other Everest Engineers and Underwriters to enhance the global team expertise. - Ensure training attendance and compliance to upgrade of skills as well as meeting all the Everest obligations to stay fit and probe. Skills & Abilities - Ability to establish and maintain excellent relationships both internally and externally. - Maintain and develops market knowledge including competitor profiles and products. - Excellent negotiation skills. - Judgment and decision-making skills – ability to use logic rationality and objectivity in decision making. - Commercial attitude. - Strong communication skills including participating in online and onsite seminars. - Fluency (both spoken and written) in English. Fluency in other languages (i.e., German, or Spanish) would be a plus. Experience & Qualifications - Considerable experience in a similar role as a Property and Mining Risk Engineer within insurance. - Degree in chemical, mechanical engineering, or other relevant discipline - Solid presentation skills and experience. - Ability to work with large accounts, producers, and Underwriting partners. - Working knowledge of Microsoft products including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint - Possess strong writing, verbal, & interpersonal skills.
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