Loss Control Specialist, Residential - Edmonton, Ab

Company Description
We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Opta Precise, a Verisk business, is a national leader in the property/casualty insurance risk inspection business. Opta Precise provides a variety of services including commercial risk management surveys, risk analysis, building condition assessments, building appraisals, providing underwriting information, and technical services for clients including insurers, reinsurers, policyholders, brokers, and other participants in the property/casualty marketplace.

As a Loss Control/Home Assessment Specialist, you are responsible for assessing residential homes/properties to check for compliance and assess if there are hazards or structural defects. Our Specialists review various properties on behalf of insurance companies and provide loss prevention recommendations to reduce the frequency and severity of losses arising from fire, crime, and liability.
Responsibilities

• Travel to the properties, tour and assess for risk features (about 50%-time allocation)
• Schedule appointments with clients to visually assess the properties (about 10%-time allocation) at a mutually convenient time
• Assess building construction, electrical, heating systems, and plumbing installations to ensure proper installation and code compliance.
• Converse with the owners to understand the history of the property, any risks, and answer any questions they might have.
• Prepare detailed reports using the internal systems identifying the fundamental construction and equipment details, risk assessment, and replacement cost value (about 40%-time allocation)
• Identify and report on structural defects, fire hazards and other threats to safety.
• While touring the properties, take photographs, measure rooms and the structure, review features such as fire prevention systems, heating equipment, and fuel storage tanks

Qualifications
Competencies required to succeed

• Well organized and thorough
• Strong customer service orientation
• Strong self-initiative, prioritization, and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Curious and inquisitive with an interest in learning

Accountabilities To The Regional Manager

• Reports have no errors or omission and provide accurate details of assessment results
• Contribute to team’s overall revenue goals
• Continually expand your expertise so you can assess more complex properties.

To The Owners Of The Assessed Properties

• You have the tact and professionalism for convenient, excellent experiences
• Your regularly provide value added services within your role and expertise

Education, Knowledge, And Experience Required

• Experience with building codes, residential construction, building restoration, or as a home inspector required.
• Excellent computer skills including using a database, typing speed & accuracy, use of short-cuts, and word processing is essential to efficiently and effectively creating reports.
• Education in insurance, construction, home inspections, real estate appraisals, or engineering will provide a solid technical foundation to recognize and identify construction and equipment details (College diploma or bachelor’s degree)
• Experience with sketch programs such as Rapid Sketch and Apex an asset.
• Experience as an underwriting assessor or in the insurance field preferred.

Environment/Work Conditions

• Ability to work autonomously and remotely as most work is completed from the home.
• Extensive travel is involved within a region requiring a valid driver’s license and a reliable vehicle (50%). National runs at least once per year.

Entering residences requires tact and professionalism and may require appointments to be scheduled in the evenings and on weekends
Additional Information
In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.
For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.
Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.
Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.

• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

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