Job title: Senior Account Engineer – Power Generation

Company: Allianz

Job description: Senior Account Engineer – Energy & Construction – Remote Canada

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Cluster: Allianz Professional

Let’s care for tomorrow.

Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow

At Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS), we are the global leader for insuring corporate and specialty risks in the Allianz Group. Whether it’s aircraft, satellites, the world’s biggest ships and tallest building, cyber-attacks, or climate change impacts, AGCS has the major risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.

Our We are looking for a Senior Account Engineer – Energy & Construction. This role will be remote, reporting to our Toronto, Ontario office. Candidates can reside anywhere in Canada.

Your Team

Our Allianz Risk Consulting (ARC) team is made up of experienced engineers from a wide range of technical and scientific disciplines. The team provides a flexible range of risk consulting services, from natural hazards, fire safety, and human and organizational risk factors to in-depth analysis of industry operations, and financial exposures, across all industry sectors and risks. We also focus on delivering bespoke training plans to help optimize risk management procedures in the long term.

Whether it’s airplanes, satellites, the world’s biggest ships and tallest building, cyber-attacks or climate change impacts, Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS) have got the major risks fully covered when it comes to protecting businesses. We are able to call on many years of specific business risk experience – creating tailor-made risk management services to respond to unique challenges.

The Impact You Will Have

Reporting to the ARC Liability Regional Manager, this position will take prime responsibility for providing loss control expertise, supporting, and assisting underwriters and customers. This position will also assist underwriting in risk selection and retention, providing ongoing co-ordination and monitoring of the loss control activity/servicing of assigned accounts. Occasionally, this role will require the individual to perform loss control survey work/and or monitor third parties, necessary for risk quality oversight and annual review of assigned accounts.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

• Perform desk top risk analysis, field surveys, and virtual surveys of various power generation technologies using ARC proprietary risk analysis and reporting tool, GREAT. Understand machinery and property loss exposures during commercial operation, along with construction testing phases of power plant development. Have a strong understanding of business interruption loss exposures due to property and/or MB perils.
• Handle assigned accounts from an entrepreneurial perspective. Work collaboratively with Underwriters in a fast-paced environment, meeting tight deadlines. Perform occasional field surveys as necessary, develop and distribute internal and external loss control reports and recommendations; review/analyze third party reports and recommendations for incorporation in Annual Account Summaries as needed; develop professional written correspondence as necessary. Meet reporting deadlines in accordance with departmental performance objectives.
• Develop and maintain excellent professional working relationships with underwriters, claims, co-workers, clients, and brokers. Work in close collaboration with ARC- US and Canada based engineers along with all engineers of the ARC Global Network.
• Stay current with technical developments in Power through attendance at relevant industry seminars/conferences, collaboration with peers and Allianz expert groups, and self-study. Contribute to the growth and improvement of technical strengths of local and global peers through the development of technical articles, write papers, etc. along with close affiliation with Allianz Risk Consulting global expert teams.
• Assist AGCS UW and ARC peers and global network with respect to ongoing or specific projects. Support technical training presentations for internal and external clients as required/appropriate. Be a primary resource in the development and training and mentoring of new peers in North America.

What You’ll Bring to the Role –

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering; Master’s Degree preferred
• Previous Account Coordination experience with collaborative working relationship with underwriters, brokers, and client management personnel. Highly organized and self-directed, able to communicate/negotiate with broker engineers. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to understand design concepts in power generation industry sufficient to perform an insurance risk assessment for Property perils (fire/explosion/NatCat), Machinery Breakdown, and Business Interruption. Practical, “hands on” risk assessment experience through on-site surveys.
• Commitment to maintaining knowledge of developments and new technologies in the field.
• Able to work technical loss control topics.

Language Requirements:

This role requires spoken and written communication (sent and received) with individuals and AGRUS departments located outside of Quebec who have limited to no ability to communicate in the French language. Additionally, during employment, the individual’s duties will require that they engage in written and verbal communications (sent and received) with departments/individuals located outside of Quebec who do not possess a working knowledge of written or spoken French including, but not limited to, Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal and Operations. Therefore, individuals in this role must be proficient in English with the ability to understand and communicate fluently in English.

The annualized base pay range for this role is $103,250 to $176,200. The annual base salary range represents a nationwide market range. The actual salary for this position may be above and will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role, the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate. The base pay is just one component of the AGCS total compensation package. As part of our comprehensive compensation and highly rated benefits programs, employees are also eligible for annual performance-based cash incentive awards.

What’s in it for you?

Let’s care about everything that makes you, you

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

Let’s care for your financial wellbeing

We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

Let’s care for your opportunities to progress

From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.

Let’s care for life’s twists and turns

From our support for flexible working, health, and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We’ve got your back.

Let’s care for our society and our planet

With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive, and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry, and our clients.

Care to join us?

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) is a global corporate insurance carrier and part of Allianz Group. We provide risk consultancy, Property-Casualty insurance solutions and alternative risk transfer for a wide spectrum of commercial, corporate and specialty risks across 10 dedicated lines of business. Learn more about us by clicking .

Allianz is an equal opportunity employer, and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Diversity of thinking is an important part of our company culture.

People with disabilities:

We want to give all our candidates the best opportunity to succeed. If you need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please email

Recruitment Agencies:

AGCS has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly. AGCS does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired. When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly.

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Expected salary: $103250 – 176200 per year

Location: Toronto, ON – Vancouver, BC

Job date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:24:49 GMT