Consulting Director – Mining Specialist/Risk Engineering

Company:

Marsh

Description:

R_309868 - Consulting Director – Mining Specialist/Risk Engineering

Marsh Advisory is seeking a talented individual to lead our mining risk engineering and consulting proposition in the UK. This role will be based in London. This is a unique opportunity to service UK clients and to develop and deliver a global service proposition for international clients who place business in the London insurance markets.

Marsh Advisory provides clients with strategic advice and innovative solutions across a wide range of insurable and non-insurable risks. While the focus for this position will be risk engineering, helping clients to maintain asset integrity and reduce business interruption, the role will also draw on other Advisory capabilities, such as strategic risk, claims consulting and analytics to provide a complete and differentiated client service. You will also work closely with our mining experts in other regions to provide a globally connected risk engineering service for multi-national clients.

We will count on you to:

• Work with clients and colleagues to deliver the best risk management and insurance support for clients by accurately representing the risk profile of client assets to the insurance market
• Conduct surveys of assets and create underwriting reports for both underground and overground mining assets.  Reports to provide information on site characteristics and an operational overview, key risk considerations (operational, environmental, safety, business continuity, security, regulatory), calculations for Estimated Maximum Loss (EML) and Net Loss Expectancy (NLE), review of risk controls and risk improvement recommendations based upon industry best practices, standards and your practical experience
• Lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and internal experts to deliver risk assessments, insights and support to clients
• Build differentiated service offerings by working with our experts across operational risk consulting, strategic consulting, claims solutions and analytics.
• Improve the process safety performance for our clients through recommendations and implementation of best practices. 
• Work with a specialist team of client executives, brokers and claims colleagues to provide technical information and support for insurance placement, tenders and requests for proposals. 
• Liaise with insurance markets on technical topics.
• Developing thought-leadership publications to support clients in their understanding and delivery of improvement in mining risk engineering, risk management and safety management topics.
• Apply strong communications and influencing skills – capable of presenting complex analytical topics across all levels of an organization including senior stakeholders
• Support the development of junior colleagues in their consulting skills and technical knowledge

What you need to have: 

• Extensive industry experience within the mining sector

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering subject (or similar) 

• Effective communications skills to liaise with senior management at various sites, delivering presentations and leading client and insurance market meetings 

• A highly organised work ethic in order to achieve report deadlines and coordinate site visits with a range of clients and underwriters across a variety of countries 

• An advanced engineering skill set including experience with process safety management, operations management, construction project management, asset integrity management and emergency response 
• Able to travel up to 20-30% of the time, both one-day and longer trips.

What makes you stand out?

• Experience working for one or more major operators or manufacturers in addition to experience working for an insurer or broker
• Time in a senior management position(s) or positions of technical influence 
• Master's Degree in an Engineering subject (or similar) 
• Professional/Chartered/Fellow of Professional Institute
• Language skills

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.