Consulting Director – Construction Specialist/Risk Engineering

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 8 May 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Director
CATEGORY
Consulting & Professional Services
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SKILLS

Construction Risk Engineering Insurance Brokerage Process Safety Management Construction Project Management Risk Assessment Communication Skills Stakeholder Management Emergency Response

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Consulting Director – Construction Specialist/Risk Engineering

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Risk Consulting - London, UK - Hybrid - Director - Full-time

About the Role

[Employer hidden] Risk Consulting 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, you would work with multi-disciplinary teams to support enterprise risk management, probable maximum loss (PML) studies, risk finance optimisation (RFO), claims management, and loss control solutions. You would be a lead member of our global construction risk advisory team.

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 and create underwriting reports, risk improvement recommendations and loss estimates
  • 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 safety performance for our client 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 construction 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:

  • Experience working for an insurer or broker
  • Extensive industry experience within the construction 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?

  • Time in a senior management position(s) or positions of technical influence
  • 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.

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Risk is a business of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Risk, visit [Employer hidden].com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity... We are an equal opportunities employer. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] 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 [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week.

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