Senior Engineering Underwriter
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Key Responsibilities
- Assess, evaluate, and underwrite new business submissions, renewals, extensions, and mid-term adjustments for engineering risks
- Perform detailed risk evaluations, including engineering assessments, exposure analysis, loss history review, and catastrophe modelling considerations
- Determine appropriate pricing, terms, conditions, limits, deductibles, and endorsements to ensure profitable and balanced risk acceptance
- Exercise delegated underwriting authority for technically complex and high-value engineering accounts, escalating exceptional cases as required
- Manage and monitor an assigned engineering portfolio to achieve profitability, growth, and diversification targets
- Analyze portfolio performance, loss ratios, and underwriting metrics, and recommend corrective actions where required
- Build and maintain strong relationships with brokers, clients, aggregators, and internal stakeholders
- Negotiate terms, pricing, facultative reinsurance placements, and participation on complex multi-layer programs
- Collaborate with the Reinsurance Department to support facultative and treaty placements
- Ensure compliance with internal underwriting guidelines, UAE regulatory requirements, KYC, sanctions, and AML standards
- Coordinate with Operations for timely issuance of policies, endorsements, and certificates
- Prepare new business quotations using Quote Pad and update internal trackers for workflow visibility
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior underwriters
- Contribute to training, underwriting guidelines, process improvements, and best practices within the Engineering team
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Risk Management, Insurance, or a related technical field
- Professional insurance qualification such as ACII, CPCU, FIII, or equivalent is preferred
- Minimum 5–8 years of underwriting experience in engineering lines with proven experience handling complex accounts
- Experience in the UAE or Middle East insurance market is an advantage
- Strong technical knowledge of engineering risks, catastrophe exposures, pricing, and reinsurance requirements
- Experience working with underwriting systems, rating tools, Quote Pad, and Microsoft Office and Excel
- Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Fluency in English is required
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