Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuel Risk Engineer The company is a Global Insurance company distinguished by its great reputation and growing clients portfolio in Energy and Power industries.
Remote Spain
Background: This is an exciting opportunity to join our Energy and Power team .The practice has been developed to drive accelerated, profitable growth in the broad range of energy transition technologies by developing industry specialism across lines of business. The clients include developers and operators of renewable power assets (wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydro, wave & tidal, wind turbine), the power grid and energy storage, alternative fuel production, storage and transportation assets (biofuels, hydrogen, nuclear), and other transition technologies such as heating and cooling networks and carbon capture and storage projects. Role Purpose: Work collaboratively with existing Line of Business engineering teams across Power and Energy(Specialty) to lead a multi-line approach to risk engineering, with a focus/priority on the middle market segment. Including, but not limited to, reviewing existing underwriter-engineer engagement/process, developing new processes to drive efficiency and supporting development of risk engineering guidance for occupancies. Support leader and underwriters across the company providing technical input into risk assessment, evaluating submission information including reports provided by brokers and other third parties and completing engineering reviews. Conduct site visits and risk surveys of client’s projects and premises, including input into broker reports and risk improvement recommendations. Develop ongoing learning and development curriculum for underwriters, claims and risk engineering colleagues across regions.. Create, market and develop value-added risk engineering services for Renewables / Energy clients. Attend and participate in industry events to represent the client and grow network of industry stakeholders, including presenting, participating on panel discussions and engaging with industry working groups.
Technical Skills: Minimum 10 years’ experience across key range of engineering activities; Power Generation and operation of onshore wind, solar, battery energy storage systems, power transmission and distribution. Ideally several years’ experience as an insurance risk engineer or extensive exp in site / maintenance or operations exp with an end operator. Relevant engineering degree e.g. BSc/BEng/MEng in mechanical, electrical or chemical engineering. Professional qualifications e.g. Chartered status (C.Eng) of a recognised engineering institution preferred e.g. MIMechE, MIChemE, MIStructE, MICE or similar. Extensive knowledge of the Energy and Power sectors with a desire for continuous learning. Stakeholder management and leadership skills. Practical and results driven with ability to make own decisions, manage and prioritise workload according to needs of the business, and work on own initiative. An experienced professional; clear and confident communicator with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical audiences.