Graduate Risk Engineer (80 – 100%) | London, UK

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Full time
Location: London
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Job offered by: Swiss RE
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About the role

Join the team of EMEA Risk Engineers on our journey to become the leading service provider in the commercial insurance world! With a focus on our United Kingdom book-of-business and embedded in the EMEA business division, you will have the opportunity to service internal and external customers in other regions.

You will closely interact with clients and brokers as the technical owner of all Risk Management property-related matters. You will be responsible for defining a servicing strategy to engineer your own portfolio. You will review, interpret, and build your specialist opinion based on third-party risk information, conduct prospect visits, and develop a strategic servicing plan for our customers.

Lead your own field-engineering visits, set priorities and targets for risk improvement, and partner with our clients. Serve as the account engineer; depending on skills, you may conduct loss prevention visits for clients in the EMEA Region. Participate in various projects and initiatives.

About the team

As a member of our global Risk Engineering Services (RES) community, you will be fully embedded in the EMEA RES Team and play a significant role in the UK deal 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. Our highly agile setup allows a huge degree of job diversity and development opportunities. Our dual approach of our own and third-party (field engineering partners) site surveys gives us increased flexibility and an outstanding customer focus.

You will go through extensive training in risk engineering from the fundamentals of the science of fire to understanding the key risks across multiple different industries, along with the design and application of fixed fire protection systems. You will be supported with a day-to-day buddy as well as a team of engineers with vast experience and a willingness to share this knowledge.

About you

We are looking for a phenomenal teammate with strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills who can constructively and respectfully engage in challenging conversations with both internal and external stakeholders. Are you curious and interested in learning new things every day? Do you consider yourself to be a "self-starter," able and willing to take initiative and implement measures in a goal-oriented manner with:

Required:

Master or Bachelor degree in Engineering Property loss prevention background (up to 3 years at a reputable property risk engineering provider) or a new Graduate Engineer Proficient digital literacy (e.g., Microsoft Office products, work with databases, data analytics) and ideally an affinity for digital solutions (technical savviness) Business sense and flexibility, self-managed, entrepreneurial attitude Service-mindedness for internal and external stakeholders Willingness to travel - mainly within Europe Driving license

Preferable:

Language skills: English (business fluent), other languages are an advantage

We are looking forward to your application!

Swiss Re offers modern work models and attractive workplaces that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases. #LI-Hybrid

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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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