Job Description

Senior Risk Engineer - Energy & Power

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Position Type: Full-Time / Permanent

Leap Recruitment Partners is proud to collaborate with a premier global leader in the specialty insurance and risk management sector to identify a talented Senior Risk Engineer – Energy & Power. Backed by a distinguished multi-decade heritage of enabling businesses to navigate complex challenges and fueling economic progress, our client focuses on long-term value creation and a profound commitment to supporting global communities.

The Role

In this critical position, you will provide specialized technical insights to support the underwriting of complex energy, power, and major infrastructure construction risks. This role perfectly balances technical diagnostic mastery with market-facing relationship building, allowing you to directly shape the risk engineering capabilities for a highly sophisticated, high-value corporate portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Evaluations: Execute comprehensive pre-bind risk analyses, detailed facility site surveys, and rigorous technical evaluations for energy and power assets.

• Framework Development: Build and refine sector-specific risk structures, including estimated maximum loss (EML) methodologies and grading mechanisms.

• Risk Mitigation: Provide strategic risk improvement recommendations, perform loss history reviews, and manage comprehensive account service plans.

• Underwriting Partnership: Collaborate closely with commercial underwriters to dissect intricate risk profiles and offer execution support on high-profile deals.

• Market Engagement: Participate directly in strategic client consultations, broker discussions, and technical industry presentations.

• Trend Analysis: Contribute to the evolution of underwriting guidelines by analyzing emerging technological hazards across the construction and energy sectors.

• Industry Expertise: Maintain an advanced understanding of evolving industrial operations, emerging green technologies, and transforming market hazards.

Qualifications & Experience

• Industry Tenure: 5 to 10 years of hands-on experience in risk engineering specifically focused on the energy, power generation, or oil & gas sectors.

• Technical Domain: Deep technical expertise regarding major infrastructure, heavy industrial energy systems, or power utility plants.

• Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.

• Account Management: Proven success handling complex, large-scale, or highly specialized corporate accounts.

• Communication Style: Superb client-facing engagement, advisory, and presentation skills.

• Commercial Acumen: An innate capability to convert complex technical details into clear underwriting and business advantages.

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary Range: CAD $140,000 - CAD $190,000 annually

The exact compensation offer will be tailored to the successful candidate's specific educational background, relevant experience, and qualifications.

Our client provides an exceptional total rewards package designed to support your holistic well-being. This includes:

• Comprehensive health, medical, and dental coverage

• A dedicated corporate wellness program

• Life and disability insurance protections

• A robust retirement savings plan

• Generous paid time off (PTO) and observed holidays

Come As You Are

Our client is dedicated to cultivating an authentic, inclusive, and collaborative workplace culture centered around respect, shared success, and continuous improvement.

If you are energized by this opportunity but your career path does not align perfectly with every single bullet point listed above, we still strongly encourage you to apply. You may be the ideal professional for this role or other expanding teams within the organization. Please inform us if you require any specific accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process.

At Leap we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. That means all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. Leap will not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Leap encourages applicants of all ages.