Senior Construction Risk Engineering Consultant

Senior Construction Specialties Risk Engineering Consultant: Midwest/Plains states or South-Central region of the US: Kansas City, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Minneapolis, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Eastern Texas, Western Tennessee.

 

Zurich is currently looking for a Senior Construction Risk Engineer for the Builders Risk/Construction Property Line of Business. This is a work from home virtual role with a periodic office presence, to reside within the above noted areas. Ideally, candidates would be located near a major airport.  The role includes a company car with expected travel of 25-30% of your time depending on business needs.

 

As a Senior Construction Risk Engineering Consultant, you will be responsible for:

 

• Adapting Zurich's Innovative Solutions to the Construction Industry with the objective of minimizing impacts to customer losses, and overall improvement of Sustainability & Business Resiliency at the Corporate Level.
• Leveraging Zurich’s risk engineering tools and services to improve customer risk and general account management of customers who purchase Zurich Construction Insurance products such as: Builders Risk and Construction Property.
• Delivering high-quality risk consulting services that include remote and onsite customer and prospective risk assessments of construction company operations and projects.  Risk Engineers must be able to identify construction exposures and program risk control gaps to form the basis of risk mitigation recommendations.   
• Producing independently written, technical market facing reports that analyze project and operational risk. Prospect analyses are utilized by business partners to form the basis of underwriting, claims and other insurance decisions to identify and manage risk.   
• Developing and maintaining positive business partner, broker and customer relationships
• Marketing and selling a wide range of fee services to customers that support their risk mitigation efforts.
• Developing and delivering advanced level presentations and risk management training for customers and internal business partners.
• Assisting customers with developing corporate and project specific QA/QC plans, water intrusion prevention/mitigation plans, crane management programs, conducting building envelope reviews and reviewing hurricane emergency action plans.  

 

Final candidates will be subject to a Motor Vehicle record background check as this position includes a company car.

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

• Bachelors Degree and 6 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering area 
  OR
• High School Diploma or Equivalent and 8 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering area
  OR
• Zurich Certified Apprentice, including an Associates degree and 6 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering area 
  AND
• Experience working in a team environment

 

Preferred Qualifications:

 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Building Technology, or equivalent
• Construction field experience: Project Management, and/or Superintendent - mid to senior level position.
• Advanced level experience in the management/oversight of complex construction projects, industry trends and emerging risks specific to the energy-sector, mass timber, tunneling/hydro, data centers, and crane risk analysis. Civil works projects experience (bridge construction, highway, rail) also highly desirable.
• Experience in energy projects (i.e. solar panel installations, geothermal power plants, hydroelectric dams, biomass power plants, nuclear power stations and SMR’s, power transmission lines, energy storage facilities)
• Experience with data center and Mass Timber construction 
• Advanced level experience with analyzing geotechnical risk, various natural catastrophe exposures, project schedules including delay and impact analysis, supply chain impacts, and identifying and calculating estimated maximum loss scenarios is preferred for the role.
• Hazard identification & mitigation skills;