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Location:Alpharetta, GA, US

Are you a highly motivated individual looking for an exciting opportunity in Property Risk Engineering? Do you currently live in commuting distance to Alpharetta, Georgia? If so, join our NA team on our journey to become the leading service provider in the commercial insurance world! You will closely work with customers, underwriters and brokers as the technical owner of Property Risk Engineering Services.

About the Role

Our NA Property Risk Engineering Team is looking for a candidate with recognized experience and visibility in the NA Commercial Insurance Market with a successful track record in loss control/prevention in the field and/or at the account level. You would lead the account servicing for multinational and domestic large and medium sized corporate clients, as part of their property insurance programs. Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing, interpreting, and summarizing risk assessments conducted by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions risk engineers, by service partners, as well as third party insurance risk engineers.
• Collaborating with and advising underwriters on risk quality and exposure of existing accounts and new business, to achieve preferred risk selection.
• Preparing external loss control and internal underwriting information reports and review project plans.
• Develop strategies to expand our position on current accounts and to cross-sell other lines of business in cooperation with the underwriters and distribution managers.
• Closely interact with customers, underwriters, and brokers as part of the production, underwriting, and servicing lifecycle of accounts.
• Close collaboration with the Customer Distribution Management and Claims departments while servicing existing customers or prospecting new business.

About You

We are looking for an open-minded, trustworthy and enthusiastic team player who can constructively and respectfully engage in challenging conversations. To be successful, you need to have strong communication, negotiation and partnering skills. Are you at ease with leaving the comfort zone and performing under pressure? Do you consider yourself to be a "self-starter", able and willing to take initiative and implement measures in a detail and goal-oriented manner with:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (mechanical / electrical / industrial / civil)
• 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
• 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
• The 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 digital literacy (e.g., Microsoft Office products, work with databases, data analytics) and ideally an affinity to digital solutions (technical savviness)
• Good level of energy and proactive behavior
• Business sense, team player, customer commitment & service mindset

International Programs Expertise

In this role, the candidate selected will have to serve as an account engineer for both domestic and international programs, either on North America based accounts or on accounts from other regions whose servicing is required in North America. Therefore, the ideal candidate should also have:

• 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.

About the Team

As a member of our global Risk Engineering Services (RES) community, you will be fully embedded in the NA RES Team and play a meaningful role in the US East Region Team. Based on your skills, you will develop to become a specialist in dedicated core industries or subject matters. This includes driving various projects, initiatives, development and implementation of strategies, creating standard methodologies, guidelines or papers and industry updates or developing new innovative service offerings.

The role is based in our Alpharetta, (GA) office location. Swiss Re has a hybrid work model where the expectations is that you will be in the office three days per week on average.

The estimated base salary range for the Risk Engineer is $112,000 to $168,000. The estimated base salary range for the Senior Risk Engineer is $156,000 to $234,000. The specific salary offered for this or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

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.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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.

During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.

Keywords: risk engineering, manufacturing
Reference Code: 134427

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