Power Risk Engineer

Salary £105 to £117.5K + bonus + car allowance + quality benefits

As a Power Generation Risk Engineer, you will help deliver profit by using your extensive industry experience for the delivery of sound risk selection advice for underwriters. You will also provide excellent loss prevention advice for our clients to help avoid losses and ensure business continuity.

How You'll Make An Impact

Perform both operational and construction field surveys of powergen sites, determine inherent risk and audit all departments to verify effectiveness of risk prevention and mitigation controls

• Develop loss prevention recommendations, to reduce the risk of property damage and business interruption.
• Present survey results to site management focusing on the risk analysis, conclusions and loss prevention recommendations.
• Complete report writing in an accurate and timely fashion using our client’s report format, loss estimation methods and software, and proprietary risk rating tools.
• Carry out desk top risk analysis by reviewing, interpreting and summarizing third party, technical risk information.
• Explain survey and desk top analysis to underwriters. brokers and power operators
• Manage survey programs for your assigned industry clients, including service plan development, service co-ordination, report reviews & stewardship meetings.
• Produce Account Summary Reports (ASRs) and explain them to your underwriters so they can make effective underwriting decisions.
• Peer review completed survey reports & account reviews.
• Learn from losses, understanding the root causes and how they could have been avoided: Apply that learning in your work.

What You'll Need To Succeed

• At least 10 years of industrial experience in power plant operations, engineering or maintenance, or within a boiler/gas turbine manufacturer.
• Strong Health, Safety and Environmental awareness. NEEBOSH and experience of relevant ISO standards would be an advantage
• Ability to work in our clients City office at least 3 days per week in a face-to-face team environment.
• Excellent knowledge of engineering concepts, standards, practices, procedures & techniques and the enthusiasm to learn more!
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to lead insurance risk surveys in the field, quickly building effective working relationships to gain information & understanding.
• Ability to clearly explain technical issues to underwriters & clients and especially the impact on loss potential.
• Ability to deliver survey reports and account reviews on-time.
• Able to undertake international travel for up to 90 days per year.

Other Advantageous Experience

• Knowledge/experience of a range of power station technologies including conventional thermal, combustion turbines, CCGT, nuclear & renewable power generation facilities.
• Experience of power generation design/construction projects.
• Familiarity with the failure patterns and characteristics of differing turbine models and components
• Previous experience of working for a major insurance carrier, broker or loss adjuster.
• Graduate Electrical or Mechanical engineer.
• Other working languages would be an advantage.
  
  

Our client values in-person collaboration as a vital part of their culture, which is why they ask team members to be primarily in the office. This approach helps create a supportive, connected environment for their team and clients alike.

Interested and suitably qualified candidates should forward a Word version of their CV and a brief covering letter to Mark Stracey at Mark Stracey Recruitment. E mail recruitment@markstracey.com

Mark Stracey Recruitment operates as both a Recruitment Business and a Recruitment Agency