Job Description

Job Summary:

• To apply professional knowledge and expertise to provide risk assessment and risk improvement services for company's cedants' and business partners.
• To determine the possible financial risk posed by offering insurance cover for personal items, properties or sites.
• To undertake commercial and personal surveys and prepare and present reports for use by insurance underwriters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive risk insight for multiple lines of business
• Assess the quality of moderately complex risks
• Assess loss potentials in accordance with agreed definitions
• Support external customers by identifying, assessing and reducing the risks that they face individually and on an overall account basis
• Provide effective advice on risk management issues to business partners
• Implement risk improvement programmes
• Conduct loss investigations, which include both trend and root cause analysis
• Provide appropriate training to customers, underwriters and claims handlers
• Collaborate with customers and business partners to develop appropriate service plans
• Market risk engineering products and services

Required Skills or Experience

• A good first degree in relevant field, preferably civil engineering, and/or related industry or technical certification in a specific field of expertise with a minimum of two years post qualification experience
• A minimum qualification and experience in insurance will be an added advantage.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
• Flexibility to work in a range of physical locations,
• Aptitude to investigate and assess technical risks and to retain large amounts of technical knowledge;
• Strong organisational, planning and time management skills;
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team;
• Capacity to complete projects and keep to deadlines;
• The ability to use appropriate technical equipment, e.g. survey templates and digital photographic equipment;
• Skilled in the use of computer hardware and software.