Senior Property Risk Account Engineer

Zurich Resilience Solutions’ Risk Engineering, loss-control and consulting services help businesses of all sizes build resilience to today’s evolving, interconnected risk landscape by helping them manage and mitigate risk, improve safety and reduce claims and associated costs. These services add an important layer of protection for companies by providing solutions before, during and after an event. Simply put, companies that manage risk effectively operate more efficiently and they have an edge in a competitive marketplace.

 

Zurich Resilience Solutions’ Property Midwest Team is seeking a Senior Property Risk Account Engineer with large property highly protected risk (HPR) experience. This is a work from home role, ideally positioned within the Chicago area. Will also consider surrounding cities. This role has expected travel at 20%.

 

Our Senior Property Risk Account Engineer is responsible for:

 

• Management of account risk portfolio and providing account level engineering to meet underwriting requirements.
• Developing and implementing customer service strategies that reduce loss and improve customer operations.
• Providing engineering support to underwriting team by attending client broker meetings
• Monitoring property account engineering services to ensure that delivery is proper, on-time, and cost effective.
• Performing field engineering services where necessary, primarily for larger location on accounts and/or prospects within the region.
• Providing advanced property consultative services to customers, including identifying exposures with significant loss potential, investigation of cause/effect of major losses and property management programs
• Assisting in marketing Zurich risk transfer insurance products in conjunction with underwriting professionals and agents across company business segments. 

 

The role will be filled at the Senior Property Risk Account Engineer or Principle Risk Engineering Specialist level. The hiring manager will determine the appropriate level based upon the selected applicant’s experience and skill set relative to the qualifications listed for this position.

 

Basic Qualifications: 

 

Senior Property Risk Account Engineer
 

• Bachelors Degree and 6 or more years of experience within the Property Risk Engineering area 
  OR 
• High School Diploma or Equivalent and 8 or more years of experience within the Property Risk Engineering area 
  AND
• Experience with Microsoft Office
• Experience working in a team environment 

 

OR

 

Principle Risk Engineering Specialist

 

• Bachelors Degree and 8 or more years of experience in the Property Risk Engineering area 
  OR
• High School Diploma or Equivalent and 10 or more years of experience in the Property Risk Engineering area 
  OR
• Zurich Certified Apprentice, including an Associates degree and 8 or more years of experience in the Property Risk Engineering area
  AND
• Knowledge of exposures, controls and best practice risk improvement

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Fire Science, or related degree
• HPR Property experience
• Account Executive & Loss Control/Risk Engineering experience within the insurance industry