Chemical Principal Risk Specialist- Remote
About The Position
HSB is offering an exciting opportunity for a remote role as a Principal Risk Engineer to partner with leading organizations in the chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, LNG, pipeline, and terminal industries. In this role, you will leverage your operational and engineering expertise to assess complex facilities, identify critical risks, and deliver practical recommendations that enhance resilience and business continuity. Ideal candidates have experience in process engineering, maintenance, reliability, turnaround execution, and/or plant fire protection. They are comfortable working from home, and are looking to apply their expertise in a consulting-focused risk engineering environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline is preferred, and can be counted for 5 years of experience
- 15+ years of experience in operations, maintenance, inspection, insurance engineering, and/or repairs of process equipment associated with high value/risk occupancies such as power generation, primary metals, mining, pulp & paper, sugar, or glass
- 5+ years experience leading/managing personnel and/or major equipment repair/installation projects as part of the experience noted above is preferred
- Ability to travel, including ~30 overnight stays per year.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in process engineering, maintenance, reliability, turnaround execution, and/or plant fire protection.
- Experience in operations, maintenance, inspection, insurance engineering, and/or repairs of process equipment associated with high value/risk occupancies such as oil & gas, chemical, petrochemical, LNG
Responsibilities
- Travel to client sites and gain exposure to a wide range of industrial processes and technologies.
- Evaluate equipment, operations, maintenance, fire protection, and business interruption exposures, and risk control practices.
- Partner with plant leadership, operations, maintenance, reliability, continuous improvement, operational discipline, and business continuity teams to identify and mitigate risk.
- Provide practical recommendations to improve reliability, asset integrity, and operational performance.
- Prepare risk evaluation reports of sites.
- Perform desktop engineering evaluations of insured and prospective accounts to support underwriting decisions.
- Work with leading organizations across the chemical, refining, petrochemical, LNG, pipeline, terminal, and energy sectors.
- Manage and oversee HSB’s services for assigned accounts.
- Collaborate with HSB's network of subject matter experts.
- Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and training for colleagues and underwriters.
Benefits
- competitive salary & bonus
- robust benefits package
- paid time off
- 5% 401(k) match
- additional employer contribution of 2% to 5% to your Retirement Savings Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
