Senior Property Risk Engineer

Title:

Senior Property Risk Engineer

Company:

Everest Insurance Company

Job Category:

Operations

Job Description:

Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Europe, Bermuda, Canada, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people.

At Everest, we are committed to the development of our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. You will benefit from career development and learning opportunities that will let you set career goals and fulfill them, including:

• Generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement
• Mentoring opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements
• Talent development initiatives
• Networking groups
  
  
  

Job Description:

Everest Group, Ltd. (Everest), is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in North America, Latin America, the UK & Ireland, Continental Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Our most critical asset is our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. We also offer generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement programs, mentoring opportunities, flexible work arrangements, and Colleague Resource Groups.

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 world class risk engineering services will guarantee your international visibility.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Property Risk Engineer, you will:

• Provide risk engineering services for Property underwriters in all Everest International offices, with a main 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 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 otherlines 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
• Share experience, knowledge and documents with other Everest Engineers and Underwriters to enhance the global team expertise.
  
  
  

Candidate Profile

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 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.
  
  
  

The role will be preferably base in Chicago, or it can be remote.

As an effective team member, employees at Everest Insurance must champion the Everest Insurance Culture, demonstrate our Cultural Tenets and :

• Collaboration: Open and transparent communication with customers and colleagues
• Thoughtful Assumption of Risk: Supporting the Everest goal of carefully writing profitable business by ensuring data quality, prompt and accurate feedback to Underwriters, and operational control throughout the enterprise.
• Execution: Delivering outstanding support to the organization through strong day-to-day business operations, effective project management, and careful oversight of vendors.
• Humility: Caring and respectful approach to service colleagues, customers, and the community.
• Leadership: By example, every day.
• Talent: The lifeblood of our organization that fuels our continued profitable growth.
• Efficiency: Careful decision making and strategic deployment of financial resources.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We embrace and celebrate diverse views and perspectives.
  
  
  

Colleague Behaviors:

• Respect Everyone.
• Pursue Better.
• Lead by Example.
• Own our Outcomes.
• Win Together.
  
  
  

Our Culture

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Click here to learn more about our culture.

• Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
• Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.
  
  
  

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve.

Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

Chicago, IL - South Riverside

Additional Locations:

Boston, MA, New York, NY, Warren, NJ

Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Everest Benefits at everestbenefits@everestglobal.com.

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