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Insurance Risk Surveyor
Insurance risk surveyors assess the potential financial risk posed by offering insurance cover for items or sites, and provide underwriters with information about how to reduce risk or whether insurance cover should be offered.
Insurance risk surveyors may work in a general capacity, but they usually specialise in a particular area, such as: fire, accidents and public liability, theft or engineering insurance.
Key Task
- Conduct site visits with underwriters
- Assess and evaluate risk to buildings, employees or customers by undertaking appropriate research
- Carry out detailed site surveys
- Write and proofread reports for underwriters
- Provide advice to clients and making recommendations about required improvements
- Assign quality grades after improvements have been made
- Liaise with health and safety inspectors, clients, insurance brokers and underwriters
- Collect photographs as evidence
- Well-informed of changes in legislation and trading processes
Key Skills
- Commercial awareness
- Diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Strong time management skills
- The ability to work effectively under pressure
- Excellent IT skills
- Organisational skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Teamwork as well as the ability to work independently
- Communication skills to explain complex ideas to people from a variety of backgrounds
- Attention to detail
Who are your employers
- Insurance companies
- Reinsurance companies
- Specialist surveying firms
- Insurance risk management departments
- Brokers
