Risk Engineering Consultant or Senior Risk Engineering Consultant -Construction Casualty
Listed on 2026-06-17
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Engineering
Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineer, Safety Engineer, Quality Engineering
Zurich is currently looking for a Construction Risk Engineer Consultant for the Casualty Lines of Business. This is a Minnesota based remote role supporting the upper Midwest region. Ideal location includes Minneapolis and surrounding areas. The position includes a company car, with expected travel of 30% to 50% and overnight travel of 20% to 30% of your time depending on business needs.
This role could be filled at either a Risk Engineering Consultant or at the Sr. Risk Engineering Consultant level, this will be at the manager’s discretion.
As a Construction Risk Engineering Consultant, you will be responsible for:
- Apply Zurich risk engineering solutions to construction customers to help reduce losses and improve risk management outcomes.
- Leverage Zurich’s risk engineering tools and services to improve customer risk and general account management of customers who purchase Zurich Construction Insurance products such as:
Workers Compensation, General Liability and Auto Liability. - Deliver high-quality consultative services, including exposure identification, evaluation of risk control gaps, and development of practical risk mitigation recommendations.
- Develop and maintain positive customer and business partner relationships, collaborating to create appropriate service plans.
- Partner with Construction Underwriting to evaluate and assess existing and prospective customers.
- Identify opportunities to provide fee-based services that support customer risk mitigation and performance improvement efforts.
- Develop and deliver advanced presentations and risk management training for customers and internal business partners.
- Providing appropriate risk improvement advice, conduct loss investigations (including both trend and root cause analysis), and implementing risk improvement programs.
- Assist customers with corporate and project specific safety plans, QA/QC programs, construction defect investigations when applicable, building envelope reviews, and moisture mitigation strategies.
- Actively participate and engage in local construction industry associations.
Final candidates will also be subject to a Motor Vehicle record background check, because this position will include a company car.
Basic Qualifications:
Risk Engineering Consultant:
- Bachelors Degree and 3 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering area
OR - High School Diploma or Equivalent and 5 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering area
OR - Zurich Certified Apprentice, including an Associates degree and 3 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering area
AND - Experience working in a team environment
- Relevant experience in the assessment of risk, based on what is required by LOB specific competency standards
OR
Senior Risk Engineering Consultant:
- Bachelors Degree and 6 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering, Safety/ Risk Management, Construction Field Operations, Engineering or relatable field.
OR - High School Diploma or Equivalent and 8 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering, Safety/ Risk Management, Construction Field Operations, Engineering or relatable field.
OR - Zurich Certified Apprentice, including an Associates degree and 6 or more years of experience in the Risk Engineering, Safety/ Risk Management, Construction Field Operations, Engineering, or relatable field.
AND - Experience working in a team environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced knowledge of construction safety, operations, quality management, and associated risks, exposures and controls.
- Experience with large commercial construction, data center construction, and regulated or non-regulated fleets.
- Strong technical writing and presentation skills for customer-facing and internal work products.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and consulting skills with the ability to engage effectively at both corporate and project site levels.
- Have a high level of computer literacy and be proficient in Microsoft Office, including Copilot, and mobile IOS devices.
- Professional certifications: CHST, ASP, CSP, CRIS, ARM
- Relevant experience as a corporate safety professional, site safety leader, project manager, or superintendent with safety responsibilities.
- Demonstrated…
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