Company Description
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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.
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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
Schedule appointments with clients to visually assess the properties (about 10%-time allocation) at a mutually convenient time
Travel to the properties, tour and assess for risk features (about 50%-time allocation)
While touring the properties, take photographs, measure rooms and the structure, review features such as fire prevention systems, heating equipment, and fuel storage tanks
Assess building construction, electrical, heating systems, and plumbing installations to ensure proper installation and code compliance.
Identify and report on structural defects, fire hazards and other threats to safety.
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)
Qualifications
Competencies required to succeed
Strong customer service orientation
Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
Strong self-initiative, prioritization, and time management skills
Well organized and thorough
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
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 building codes, residential construction, building restoration, or as a home inspector required.
Experience with sketch programs such as Rapid Sketch and Apex an asset.
Experience as an underwriting assessor or in the insurance field preferred.
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.
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
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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(TM) list and one of 18 companies on Spain's Best Workplaces(TM) 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.
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