Senior Construction Risk Engineering Consultant

Zurich is currently looking for a Senior Construction Risk Engineering Specialist for the Casualty Lines of Business in our East region. This is a work from home role in the Maryland, Virginia or DC area. The position includes a company car, with expected travel of 30% to 50% of your time depending on business needs.

 

In this role as a Senior Construction Risk Engineering Specialist, 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: Workers Compensation, General Liability and Auto Liability.

• Delivering high quality construction consultative services for customers, including identifying exposures and program risk control gaps to form the basis of risk mitigation recommendations, investigation of cause/effect of major losses for hazard/safety management programs.

• Developing and maintain positive customer and business partner relationships and collaborate with both customers and business partners to develop appropriate service plans.

• Marketing and selling a wide range of fee services to customers that support their risk mitigation efforts.

• Producing advanced level presentations and delivering risk management training for customers and internal business partners.

• Providing appropriate risk improvement advice, conduct loss investigations (including both trend and root cause analysis), and implement risk improvement programs.

• Assisting customers with developing corporate and project specific QA/QC plans, safety plans, investigating construction defects when applicable, building envelope reviews and moisture mitigation identification.

• Participate in Sales Team meetings and presentations to brokers and customers while contributing to fee income sales through opportunity spotting and cross-selling.

 

Final candidates will also be subject to a Motor Vehicle record background check, because this position will include a company car.

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 or more years of experience in the Construction Risk Engineering, Safety/ Risk Management, or Construction Field Operations.

            OR

• High School Diploma or Equivalent and 8 or more years of experience in the Construction Risk Engineering, Safety/ Risk Management, or Construction Field Operations.

           AND

• Experience working in a team environment

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Construction Safety/Risk preferrable with Project Management, and/or Superintendent experience- mid to senior level position.

• Advanced level knowledge of construction safety, operations, quality management and associated construction risks and exposures.

• Professional certifications such as: CRIS, ARM, CHST, CSP, ASP, P.E. etc.

• Have a high level of computer literacy and be proficient in Microsoft Office and IOS platforms.

• Proficiency in technical writing to create customer and internal business partner work products.

• Be experienced working in both independent and team environments.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and consulting skills with the ability to communicate and consult at both the corporate and project site levels effectively and professionally.

• Leadership and involvement in extracurricular activities, organizations and/or community, public service, or similar activities.

• Willingness to embrace the Zurich Basics, including our values of integrity, Sustainability, Customer Centricity, Excellence and Teamwork.<