31 Oct
The Chemical Engineer
United Arab Emirates
£65,000 to £125,000 PA Tax Free (includes salary and housing allowance)
Location: UAE or Saudi Arabia
Insurance Risk
Company
Our client is a leading player in the international high hazard insurance sector, involved in coverage associated with various challenging areas including oil and gas, refining, petrochemicals, LNG, metals, mining, maritime, and mass transport. The organisation’s Gulf hub is enjoying significant client support despite current global challenges. The successful business offers additional advisory services on a range of insurance issues such as claims, risk mitigation, and business interruption management.
Role
Our client seeks an engineer with significant industry experience in metals processing and operations and/or conventional power generation. Areas of interest include steel and aluminium manufacturing and fossil-fuelled power plants and associated heavy machinery (turbines, smelters, crushers, grinders, furnaces, boilers, combustion plant, etc.). The successful candidate is likely to be a degree-qualified Mechanical or Chemical Engineer who has worked in metals, power, or heavy industries, acquiring excellent knowledge within those sectors of production, operations, maintenance, and technical safety and construction. The successful candidate will function as the engineering representative on key accounts, supporting our client’s executive and broking teams with technical analysis and insights. A key part of the role will be conducting underwriting surveys, whose output will include a description of the facilities and their condition, an analysis of loss control features, and engineering/financial-based loss and asset replacement cost estimation.
Other key deliverables include the production and delivery of training packages and contributing to BCM and ERM type studies.
As well as a process operations/production background, it is essential that candidates also bring significant experience/knowledge of at least one of the following:
- Process Safety
- Inspection/Asset Integrity/Condition Surveys
- Maintenance, or Inspection/Asset Integrity
- Business Interruption/Consequential Loss
- Additional experience in a construction/project execution type role is also an advantage, but not essential.
General Attributes / Location / Core Requirements
For all roles, the following attributes would be beneficial, but are not essential:
- Fluency in Arabic
- Fluency in French
Core requirements include:
- Written and verbal communication skills are essential, as is the ability to work at all levels within a client organization. Production of the underwriting report following a survey is a key skill.
- The ability to lead a team of insurance engineers to conduct underwriting surveys, typically between 2 and 5 days duration at client sites.
- For key sites or large sites, extended surveys of 10 days are sometimes required.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential.
- Typically, 70 days travel within EMEA.
The role will be awarded on generous local terms, which include a tax-free salary, a housing allowance, flights, healthcare, and a terminal bonus.
Interested and suitably qualified candidates should forward a Word version of their CV to:
Mark Stracey
Mark Stracey Recruitment
E-Mail:
Mark Stracey Recruitment operates as both an employment business and employment agency.
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▶️ Risk Engineer – Heavy Industries (Steel, Aluminium, Minerals and Power)
🖊️ The Chemical Engineer
📍 United Arab Emirates