Risk Consulting Engineer, Property in London

Let’s care for tomorrow. Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow.

Whether it’s aircraft, international business or offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses. We are looking for a Risk Consulting Engineer with a focus on our Property Line of Business, based in our London office.

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.

The Impact You Will Have

As a Risk Consulting Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering expert risk consulting services to clients across diverse industrial sectors. This position requires a strong technical foundation, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to thrive under pressure. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor, providing actionable insights and supporting strategic change initiatives within the organization.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

• Providing guidance and professional advice to clients and underwriting from both a location-level and a holistic, program-wide perspective.
• Analysing complex risk scenarios and proposing innovative, practical solutions tailored to client needs at client stewardship meetings.
• Promoting and technically supporting ARC services and solutions, with the objective of enhancing client resilience.
• Working with underwriting, the client and broker to develop appropriate value-added solutions through tailored loss control programs and services, including development of scope and cost of risk consulting services.
• Proactively engaging in global and regional projects to develop new innovative risk consulting services.
• Completing on-site engineering survey assessments, obtaining appropriate data, identifying hazards, generating comprehensive risk engineering reports and recommendations to evaluate exposures and controls.
• Developing and maintaining positive relationships with underwriting, claims and distribution colleagues.
• Sharing technical expertise with colleagues and customers through training, technical guidance documents delivery or participation in a Segment Expert Teams (SETs) in Allianz Risk Consulting.
• Contributing to knowledge sharing and mentoring within the organization.

What You’ll Bring to the Role

With further education in Engineering you bring around 5 years of professional experience in an industrial sector, including exposure to insurance or risk management. You are innovative and resolutely client-centric, keen to apply your broad engineering experience to our clients’ complex challenges. You bring:

• Familiarity with insurance market practices and risk assessment methodologies.
• Ability to assess natural hazard vulnerabilities in international business models and to develop strategies to mitigate risks associated with extreme weather events and natural catastrophes.
• Knowledge of global fire protection standards and codes (NFPA, FM Global standards, ISO fire safety codes).
• Strong understanding of windstorm, severe convective storm, flood and earthquake risk evaluation and their implications for property and business continuity.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and consulting skills with the ability to communicate and consult at account and site levels effectively.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, creative and critical-thinking skills.
• Project management skills, able to take ownership and a highly collaborative approach.
• Ability to perform under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• A solid understanding of data analysis, automation and AI tools is required, with an awareness of ethical AI usage. You are able to support current company initiatives aimed at enhancing productivity and modernizing risk assessments.

What’s in it for 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Allianz Commercial is the center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family-owned and medium-enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what’s ahead.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

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: Allianz Commercial has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly. Allianz Commercial 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.