Construction Risk Control Technical Safety Consultant

Travelers; Washington; Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Travelers is seeking a Risk Control professional who will provide account knowledge on hazards, controls, and management. You will evaluate inherent risk factors and differentiate accounts within large, complex, multi-location businesses.

This role reports to the Risk Control Field Director or Managing Risk Control Consultant. Expect 20–50% onsite client visits, with travel possibly including overnight trips.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in environmental health and safety, engineering, construction management, or related technical fields.
• Strong knowledge of the insurance industry and business acumen.
• Technical aptitude with attention to detail.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a consistent field presence with customers, including 20%–50% onsite travel.
• Partner with Underwriting to select, retain, and grow a profitable book of business.
• Build relationships with Underwriting, Claim, Risk Control Specialists, and Brokers.
• Complete risk assessments for moderate to high complexity accounts with significant exposures.
• Write technically detailed risk assessment reports and communicate recommendations.
• Identify customer needs and provide Risk Control products and services to reduce losses.
• Stay current with technical subjects, regulations and emerging issues.
• Create a valued customer experience through assessments and service encounters.

Skills

Insurance knowledge

Communication skills

Technical aptitude

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Influencing skills

Rapport building

Education

Bachelor’s or higher in EH&S / related field

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Risk Control

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$94,400.00 - $155,800.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Provide the Underwriter with account knowledge as it relates to hazards, controls, and management. They will need to evaluate how a company identifies and manages their inherent risk factors. Additionally they are expected to differentiate the account from others in similar classes of business. In this role the consultant will be working with our larger, more complex and all lines accounts. This role reports to the Risk Control Field Director or Managing Risk Control Consultant.

What Will You Do?

• Maintain a consistent field presence, spending approximately 20% - 50% of the time onsite with customers. Traveling to customers may entail long-distance, overnight travel, and/or multi-night trips depending on the needs of the business and alignment with territory and/or geography.
• Partner and have joint ownership with Underwriting to select, retain, and grow a profitable book of business.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with Underwriting, Claim, Risk Control Specialists, and Brokers to service customers as a unified team.
• Complete risk assessment evaluations for moderate to high complex accounts with potential for severe losses, multi-location companies, and larger fleet exposures and generally business with significant exposures.
• Write technically detailed reports that communicate a clear assessment of risk and effectively articulate recommendations.
• Discover and evaluate customer needs through loss analysis and customer readiness in order to provide Risk Control products and services to help control losses.
• Identify uncontrolled exposures to influence the customer to make improvements and take corrective actions to mitigate the potential for loss.
• Provide solutions to assist the customer in risk mitigation through the use of our extensive span of resources. Stay current with technical subject matters, regulatory environment and emerging issues.
• Stay current with technical subject matters, regulatory environment and emerging issues.
• Create a valued customer experience through each assessment and service encounter.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in environmental health and safety, engineering, construction management, basic sciences and related technical fields.
• Strong level knowledge of insurance industry and business acumen.
• Recognized relevant certifications (such as ASP, CSP, ARM, CFPS).
• Technical aptitude, detail oriented.
• Superior communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Ability to quickly establish credibility and rapport with all others.
• Experience working in a collaborative environment.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Influencing skills that effectively drive business needs.