Principal Account Engineer

Principal Account Engineer

Company

HSB

Location

Atlanta, United States

Use your experience in the power generation industry or heavy manufacturing to become an integral member of HSB’s heavy industry engineering team … all while primarily working from home! If you have experience as a reliability engineer, plant engineer, maintenance manager, field engineer, or project manager, this could be the next career step for you.

If you become a Principal Account Engineer with HSB, you will visit facilities from paper mills to power plants, consult with site leadership, and analyze the facility’s equipment, maintenance, training, and contingency planning. While on site, you will identify possible machinery breakdown or fire concerns, and work consultatively with customers to reduce their risk potential. You will also consult with HSB underwriters on machinery insurance coverage offerings, update guidelines, and teach internal audiences about the process flow, machinery, and potential equipment failures.

As a new team member, you will focus on the industries you are familiar with. As you develop further in this role, you will evaluate businesses in other heavy industries. The team works in many industries, including steel, aluminum, mining, pulp & paper, heavy manufacturing, glass, chemical, traditional power generation, solar, battery energy storage, and renewable natural gas. Team members work cooperatively to support HSB’s heavy industry insurance programs.

At HSB, our engineering teams support the insurance and advancement of equipment and technology. We evaluate and insure some of the world’s largest industrial, power, and manufacturing sites. Apply to join our growing team!

Internal Job Title :
Principal Risk Specialist

• Write evaluations of insured accounts and potential new customers for HSB or Munich Re underwriters, by evaluating available information on multiple sites which make up the account. Apply advanced technical knowledge of equipment design, condition, operations, maintenance, and human element risk control programs to complete the evaluation.
• Determine how to improve or manage insured accounts’ risk potentials through account engineering, loss control initiatives, and consultative risk control engineering services. This includes selecting insured locations to visit.
• Turn your knowledge in to guidance for others: oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of engineering standards and guidelines for heavy industry occupancies.
• Provide training and leadership to other loss control engineers and underwriters.
• Conduct site risk evaluations of facilities. Assess the facility’s process flow, machinery, and operations & maintenance practices. Identify risk factors. Use a consultative approach with the insured to reduce the potential for an insurance claim. Write a report about the location, to provide HSB or Munich Re underwriters with a clear understanding of the site.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline is preferred
• 15+ years of experience in operations, maintenance, capital projects, inspection, or insurance engineering of process equipment associated with high value industries such as steel, aluminum, mining, pulp & paper, heavy manufacturing, glass, chemical, traditional power generation, solar, battery energy storage, and renewable natural gas.
• 5+ years experience leading/managing personnel and/or major equipment repair/installation projects as part of the experience noted above is preferred

• Comprehensive understanding of the machinery, operations, repair timelines, and process flow for multiple high risk occupancies
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
  
  Self-starter; able to work with limited supervision and manage competing priorities.
• Understanding of insurance industry and underwriting terms
• Strong presentation and training skills
• Ability to travel, including ~30 overnight stays per year

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