Renewable and Power Risk Engineer

Kintec Global Recruitment; Madrid; A distancia; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global insurance company seeks a Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuel Risk Engineer to join its Energy and Power team. You will lead risk engineering efforts, conduct site visits, and develop risk services for renewable energy clients. The ideal candidate has over 10 years' experience in power generation and operations, with a relevant engineering degree and professional qualifications. This is a remote role based in Spain with a focus on the growing energy transition sector.

Formación

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Power Generation and operations.
• Experience as an insurance risk engineer or extensive site/maintenance experience.
• Professional qualifications such as Chartered status preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Lead risk engineering in the Energy and Power team.
• Conduct site visits and risk surveys for clients.
• Develop risk engineering services for Renewable clients.

Conocimientos

Risk assessment

Technical communication

Stakeholder management

Energy sector knowledge

Educación

BSc/BEng/MEng in mechanical, electrical or chemical engineering

Descripción del empleo

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.