Senior Risk Engineer

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Employer: NFU Mutual

Location: North East England

Salary: Up to £71,000 + 17.5% annual bonus + benefits package + Company Car

Closing date: 8 Feb 2025

Senior Risk Engineer

Join NFU Mutual as a Senior Risk Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping risk management strategies for a diverse portfolio of customers. Your primary responsibility will involve conducting thorough underwriting risk assessments across various sectors including domestic, bespoke, farming, and commercial. Through meticulous site visits and remote surveys, you'll provide valuable technical insights to our Underwriting teams, facilitating informed insurance decisions and effectively mitigating risks for both our customers and the business.

In this dynamic role, you'll be instrumental in producing detailed technical reports that capture the nuances of underwriting risk assessments to a professional standard. Utilising defined systems and frameworks, you'll ensure that insurance decisions - whether quotes, renewals, or rejections - are reached promptly, enabling seamless operations for Underwriting and Brokers.

Moreover, as a Senior Risk Engineer, you'll actively engage in site reviews and consultancy with customers, collaborating closely with Agents and Brokers to manage stakeholders effectively. By imparting knowledge of potential risks and offering viable solutions, you'll contribute to the overarching goal of reducing risk and losses. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the broader professional community by researching, producing, and disseminating technical guidance aimed at enhancing the knowledge base of clients and colleagues alike.

This Senior Risk Engineer role is known internally as Senior Loss Control Surveyor.

About you

You'll be an extremely experienced Loss Control Surveyor with detailed technical knowledge of current risk management and loss prevention practices for a broad range of insurance risks as well as significant experience of surveying and consulting in large and complex commercial environments. Your ability to interpret underwriting requirements and effectively communicate with stakeholders will be invaluable in driving impactful risk management decisions. You'll also:

• Be able to demonstrate proficiency in current risk management and loss prevention practices across diverse insurance risks.
• Have proven experience in surveying and consulting within commercial settings, showcasing your high attention to detail and your ability to assess and mitigate risks effectively.
• Possess extremely strong communication skills, with a talent for engaging customers and stakeholders, influencing decisions, and negotiating outcomes.
• Have the ability to interpret underwriting requirements accurately, ensuring alignment with risk management strategies.
• Have proven experience and knowledge gained from roles in Underwriting, Claims, Surveying, Commercial Engineering, or related disciplines, providing a solid foundation for success in this position.

A full valid UK Driving Licence is essential in order for you to be successful in this role.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary up to £71,000 depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual

We're one of the UK's leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being "a great place to work" and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

Apply now.