Risk Engineer
About QBE
At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.
Are you passionate about working for one of the world’s largest insurers that offers excellent opportunities to grow your career and with offices in 26 countries?
Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks. Today, we employ more than 13,000 people around the world.
With our comprehensive product offering and underwriting expertise, we are able to cover a wide range of business risks, helping our clients to identify them and minimise their exposure.
If you are looking to progress your career within insurance and want to be part of a successful organisation with strong growth ambitions, then read on.
The opportunity:
We are currently looking to recruit a Risk Engineer to join our European Operations (EO) Team in Spain- this is your chance to develop your career in an exciting environment where anything is possible. Are you ready to grow your career with us?
As Risk Engineer for QBE you will develop and deliver Risk Solutions services for QBE's European Business (predominantly Spain)
You will be responsible for providing risk engineering technical support and management services, that assist effective underwriting decisions and support customers with understanding and managing their risks effectively, to minimise the frequency and exposure of potential losses and improve the overall quality of the risk. You will provide input and support to the Head of Risk Solutions in implementing the overall strategy of the EO Risk Solutions practice, product, and services.
Your new role:
• Conduct complex property, power, and liability risk engineering site assessments, producing technical reports and recommendations to identify exposures and deliver best‑practice risk mitigation solutions.
• Perform desktop reviews and provide technical advice based on broker and other carriers’ reports.
• Deliver risk engineering services for key accounts by assessing existing risk management and loss prevention controls and supporting the implementation of industry best‑practice strategies.
• Contribute to thought leadership through risk management publications, presentations, and training focused on current and emerging risks.
• Coordinate risk engineering activities with internal colleagues and external third‑party risk engineering providers.
Strategy and Planning
• Demonstrate awareness and understanding of Risk Solutions (RS) strategy, business plans, and objectives.
• Manage a portfolio of key customer accounts, developing customer‑specific risk management strategies and delivering risk management services (RMS).
• Support the delivery of operational plans and RMS within agreed service levels.
• Contribute to technology solutions and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the RMS offering.
• Plan and manage travel to ensure timely and cost‑effective delivery of RMS.
Policy, Process, and Procedures
• Comply with and support the development and maintenance of risk management policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
• Promote and support relevant technical documents, procedures, guidelines, and publications with underwriters and customers.
• Perform quality control reviews to ensure RMS quality and compliance with technical and reporting requirements.
• Identify and implement improvements to RMS and processes to ensure efficiency and alignment with underwriting guidelines and best‑practice risk management.
• Act as a subject matter expert in business improvement initiatives, projects, committees, and working groups.
Environmental Awareness / Customer Focus
• Support product growth by delivering portfolio RMS and developing tailored customer risk solutions in collaboration with Distribution, Product, and brokers.
• Promote the RS brand internally and externally, enhancing market awareness of QBE’s risk management capabilities.
• Provide customers, brokers, external providers, and employees with insights into emerging risks and mitigation strategies through publications, presentations, and training.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with underwriters, brokers, and customers to deliver value and enable future service provision.
• Promote and utilise the risk management resource library.
Technical Performance
• Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of relevant regulations, standards, and industry codes to support technical guideline development.
• Support the creation of risk management publications, training, presentations, and technical materials.
• Contribute to the development of technical risk management capabilities across Underwriting, Product, and outsourced providers.
• Provide technical risk management advice and support to stakeholders.
• Mentor, train, and support internal risk engineers, underwriters, and external providers to strengthen technical skills and risk engineering capabilities.
About you :
At QBE, we value expertise, collaboration, and a customer‑centric mindset. To succeed in this role, you will bring the following capabilities and experience:
• Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to deliver clear, concise, and high‑quality technical risk engineering reports.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with customers, brokers, underwriters, and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, influencing, negotiation, and presentation skills at all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated project management and coordination skills, including leading complex risk engineering programmes for large and demanding accounts.
• Deep technical knowledge of risk management, loss prevention, business continuity planning, and best‑practice mitigation strategies.
• Experience supporting and leading key accounts, with a track record of successfully implementing new initiatives and improvements.
• Strong analytical capability to interpret underwriting, exposure, and risk data to support informed and proactive risk management decisions.
Experience:
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience providing insurance risk engineering services.
• Comprehensive understanding of insurance products and processes, including underwriting, pricing, claims, and risk selection.
• Solid understanding of exposure drivers, claims trends, hazards, controls, and applicable regulations, standards, and industry codes.
• Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. Engineering degree or equivalent); Health & Safety and Fire Engineering qualifications are advantageous.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances.
-28 days’ annual leave, plus your birthday off
-Hybrid working model, with up to 3 days per week working from home.
-Private health insurance with premium coverage for employees and their children.
-Life insurance provided above statutory requirements.
To learn more about benefits of working with us, click Rewarding our people - QBE European Operations
Awards & Recognition
We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:
You can view all our awards here
Apply now and let’s make it happen!
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Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Business Continuity, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Decision Making, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Presenting with Impact, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Risk Reporting, Risk Strategies, Stakeholder Management, Technical WritingHow to Apply:
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.