Personal Lines Underwriter

Auto-Owners Insurance; Draper (UT); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

401(k) with match

Fully-funded pension plan (once vested

Bonus programs

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Auto-Owners Insurance in Draper, UT is seeking a motivated underwriting trainee to join our team. This role performs underwriting decisions per company philosophy and participates in the company’s trainee program.

After initial in-person training, you may have flexible work-from-home time as defined by leadership. The position offers development, mentoring, and a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or direct equivalent in property/casualty underwriting.
• Ability to organize data and make independent decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to write reports and compose correspondence.
• Willingness to engage in ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Learn various insurance coverages and contracts per company philosophy.
• Read, interpret, and react to policies, forms, and endorsements.
• Assemble information, develop opinions, and clearly express decisions.
• Analyze loss experience, financial conditions and risk characteristics.
• Acquire working knowledge of underwriting department functions.
• Effectively communicate with independent agents and associates.

Skills

Property/Casualty underwriting

Data organization

Communication skills

Report writing

Decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree or direct equivalent experience in property/casualty underwriting

Job description

A career at Auto-Owners is challenging and rewarding. Our group of caring associates create financial security by helping individuals and businesses make a new start when a loss occurs.

Job Description

We offer a merit-based work-from-home program based on job responsibilities. After initial training in-person, you could have the flexibility of work-from-home time as defined by the leadership team.

Auto-Owners Insurance, a top-rated insurance carrier, is seeking a motivated underwriting trainee to join our team.

This job performs and applies insurance coverage, rules and guidelines to execute the underwriting decision-making process according to Company underwriting philosophy.

This job includes training and development through completion of the Company’s underwriter training program for the assigned line of insurance and requires the person to:

• Learn various insurance coverages and contracts along with company philosophy and procedures, in order to make underwriting decisions
• Read, interpret, and react to documents such as policies, manuals, forms, and endorsements to understand their meaning and use
• Assemble information, develop opinions, and clearly express decisions using sound reasoning and judgment
• Analyze loss experience, financial conditions and physical characteristics of risks
• Acquire a working knowledge of supporting sections of the underwriting department
• Effectively communicate with independent agents and other associates through verbal and/or written means
• Participate in and successfully complete the Company underwriter training program

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or direct equivalent experience with property/casualty underwriting
• Ability to organize data, multi-task and make decisions independently
• Above average communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to write reports and compose correspondence
• Ability to resolve complex issues
• Continually develop product knowledge through participation in approved educational programs

Benefits

Auto-Owners offers a wide range of career opportunities, and we are seeking talent that will help us continue our long tradition of success.

• We offer a friendly work environment, structured training program, employee mentoring and an excellent compensation/benefits package.
• Along with a competitive base salary, matched 401(k), fully-funded pension plan (once vested), and bonus programs, Auto-Owners also provides generous paid time off including holidays, vacation days, personal time, and sick leave.

If you're looking to do rewarding work alongside great people, Auto-Owners is the place for you!

Equal Employment Opportunity

Auto-Owners Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. The Company hires, transfers, and promotes on the basis of ability, without consideration of disability, age, sex, race, color, religion, height, weight, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, or any factor contrary to federal, state or local law.

*Please note that the ability to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship is a requirement.

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About Auto-Owners Insurance

Auto-Owners Insurance is a mutual insurance company with a simple human sense approach to business. This means we answer the phone because it's ringing, we treat people like they're people, and we believe the right way is the human way.

Established in 1916 and headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, we currently operate in 26 states.

We partner with independent agencies to sell our products to the communities we serve, and we are consistently acknowledged for our superior customer service.

We are proud to have been ranked among the Fortune 500 every year since 2002.

Find out why working here is more than just a job.