At HSB, we value the strengths and contributions of our diverse workforce. We offer continuous learning opportunities, giving you flexibility to grow in your career while enjoying a healthy work-life balance and a collaborative approach in our coast-to-coast network of offices. Become part of a rewarding and impactful workplace experience while seeing first-hand technologies and risk solutions that are changing the way we live and work.
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Primary Objectives:
HSB Canada’s Head Office Engineering Department (HOED) is the hub for technical consultancy and risk assessment across North America. Our experienced engineers handle operational risks, Equipment Breakdowns, property loss control, and inherent hazards in diverse industrial processes while providing expert support to various internal departments.
As an Account Engineer, you will foster long-term partnerships with our key accounts by performing routine risk engineering activities. This includes understanding their businesses, performing on-site risk evaluations, determining risk rankings, quantifying potential loss events, and preparing engineering assessments and reports. You will also provide technical consultation to the business, support claims by objectively assessing loss events, and keep our technical body of knowledge and engineering intellectual capital up to date.
Experienced professionals in fields like manufacturing, field engineering, maintenance, or commissioning could be an excellent fit for this position.
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a deep technical understanding of our insured’s businesses to enable world-class insurance engineering services.
- Perform engineering evaluations of complex risks to identify and understand their equipment, processes, and operations.
- Evaluate and assess the nature, probability, and magnitude of failure modes and potential loss events.
- Lead and/or participate in on-site risk evaluations and field surveys, including interviewing key site personnel.
- Obtain and evaluate technical data and reports to identify hazards and deficiencies to provide risk improvement solutions and reduce risk exposures.
- Work collaboratively with Underwriters and Claims Adjusters to provide engineering opinions, necessary calculations, and estimates.
- Contribute to the growth, improvement, and instruction of our intellectual capital by developing technical articles, educational tutorials, and technical bulletins.