Sr Risk Engineer-Natural Resources

Energy Risk Engineer

Aon's Global Natural Resources practice is seeking an experienced Energy Risk Engineer to support our expanding portfolio of downstream, midstream, petrochemical, refining, LNG, and specialty chemical clients. This role bridges real-world operational experience with insurance risk engineering, helping clients reduce loss exposures, strengthen reliability, and align with insurer expectations for complex energy risks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct property risk engineering surveys at refining, petrochemical, gas processing, midstream, terminals, and specialty chemical facilities.
• Evaluate fire, explosion, natural catastrophe, mechanical integrity, and business interruption exposures.
• Assess process safety, asset integrity, reliability programs, and management-of-change systems.
• Develop clear, prioritized risk-improvement recommendations aligned with NFPA, API, OSHA PSM, CCPS, and other global standards.
• Translate complex plant operations into insurance-ready engineering reports, including EML/MFL/BI exposure analyses.
• Support Aon brokers and client teams on renewal strategy, risk positioning, and market presentations.
• Communicate risk insights and mitigation strategies directly with underwriters and client leadership.
• Quantify the financial impact of risk improvements and support clients in decision-making.

Client Engagement & Thought Leadership:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with facility leadership (PSM, maintenance, reliability, operations).
• Deliver training and guidance on loss prevention, emergency response, and reliability optimization.
• Contribute to Aon thought leadership: technical articles, benchmarking, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Collaborate with Aon's global engineering community on complex risks and emerging technologies.

Skills and experience that will lead to success:

• Required - 10+ years of engineering experience within petrochemical, refining, midstream, LNG, ammonia/fertilizer, polymers, or specialty chemical operations.
• Background in Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or Process Safety/PSM.
• Strong understanding of PSM, RMP, mechanical integrity, rotating/fixed equipment, utilities, emergency systems, and reliability methodologies (RBI, RCM, LOPA/SIL).
• Ability to produce structured, client-ready technical reports.
• Willing and able to travel domestically and internationally (circa 80 days / year).

Who Succeeds in This Role:

• Engineers who enjoy plant operations but want a more strategic, consultative path.
• Professionals who thrive on variety—no two clients or risks are identical.
• Strong communicators who can bridge operations language and insurance language.
• Self-driven, curious thinkers with a passion for safety, reliability, and loss prevention.

Why Aon:

Join a globally recognized Natural Resources engineering team supporting some of the world's largest and most complex energy assets. You'll collaborate with engineers, brokers, and analytics experts while helping clients strengthen their resilience and operational performance. Aon offers exceptional professional development, global mobility opportunities, and exposure to diverse, high-impact projects.

Pay Transparency Laws:

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $150,000 to $170,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location. This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon's annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary.

The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.

A summary of all the benefits offered for this position:
Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon's discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance;

optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.