Safety and Risk Consultant (Remote)

Mem Ins • Blue Springs, MO, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 4w ago

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Are you driven to keep people safe? That’s what we do every day at Missouri Employers Mutual.

We’ve created a casual, values-driven work culture that’s making a positive impact on the way people live and work. This is a place where you can grow with confidence — because that’s what safety and success really mean to us.

SUMMARY:

The Safety and Risk Consultant (SRC) is an exciting and dynamic mid-level position. It is designed to provide high value risk reduction services to policyholders of various sizes while honing consultative skills as a safety professional with limited insurance and industry experience. The SRC is a field position requiring a passion for safety, self-motivation, a desire to foster change, as well as strong time management and people skills. Candidates should be ambitious, results-oriented and enjoy working in a wide variety of environments.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Prioritize workload to ensure the business and ethical needs of both MEM and policyholders are met. This includes processing work generated by others, as well as some self-generated activities. Regardless of a survey’s origin, the SRC focuses on risk anticipation, evaluation, reporting, and reduction, data gathering, business acquisition and business retention while providing value and fostering change across a broad spectrum of occupational safety and health, regulatory and risk management topics.
Schedule, conduct, and document surveys of prospective and existing policyholders for the purpose of gathering risk related data and evaluating loss exposures for underwriting and departmental purposes.
The SRC must identify, properly classify, and clearly convey the severity of uncontrolled hazards, as well as feasible mitigation strategies. Mitigation strategies follow the established hierarchy of controls and meet if not exceed accepted best practices.
Working with various size policyholders, the SRC seeks to influence the safety and risk management systems of policyholders, with varying degrees of sophistication, in a positive direction.
The SRC reviews assigned book of business to identify policyholders who would benefit from Safety and Risk Services resources.
Consult with policyholders, producers, Claims, and Underwriting to promote best practices and safety culture to reduce and/or eliminate claims.
Initiate and conduct systems-based incident investigations and analysis to identify management deficiencies, root cause, and corrective actions with the intention of preventing future occurrences.
Continuous self-study designed to fortify knowledge gaps with the intention of better servicing and leveraging change in the assigned territory by promoting risk management best practices and safety culture.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

A bachelor’s degree in industrial/construction safety, engineering, related safety field and/or another degreed program is preferred. If the degreed program is not safety related, the individual must have 5 years professional experience with a designation or certification outlined below to be considered for this position.

Designations/Certifications:

None required. Applicants having attained or possessing a desire to pursue a designation/certification of one of the following or equivalent are preferred:

Associate in Loss Control Management (ALCM)
Associate Safety Professional (ASP)
Associate in Risk Management (ARM)
Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE)
Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
Graduate Safety Professional (GSP)
Professional Engineer (PE)

Licenses:

A valid drivers’ license is required.
Claim adjusting license beneficial, but not required.

Experience:

Three to five years of professional level work experience in occupational safety and/or industrial hygiene.
Two or more years of workman’s compensation insurance consultation experience preferred.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.