Risk surveyor in insurance industry
 

Hi everyone,

I had been working in manufacturing industry for 7 years as an engineer. Currently, I have an offer to be risk surveyor in insurance industry.

Does anyone know of the career prospect for this industry? Is it a good place to go?

Anyone who knows someting about this industry?

What sort of risk surveyor?

I never heard of co hiring a mfg engineer with totally no experience straight away as surveyor. Are you sure its not some sales or basic ops fill-up-forms level job with fancy title?

I will never pay >3.5k for someone fresh w/o relevant exp.

Job scope is going to client company to access their risk level before the underwriter and acturist calculate the premiums

It's spelt actuary.

pay
 

how is the pay like?

not bad. better than mfg

Sounds like a typical insurance ops role, good if you want some stability and SOP brain dead job that is routine, bad for building a career or making money.

Don't knock insurance - its an excellent industry to be in right now. I made the switch from manufacturing and have not looked back since. I spent a number of years as a risk surveyor, which were probably the most interesting years of my life, and the experience gained has put me in good stead. I have moved on to a different role now, and I can assure you that my marketability and salary would not be where it is today had I remained a manufacturing engineer. Go for it!

Welcome to the trade!Don't worry. Its definitely better than what you are currently doing now. This is a rewarding job in terms of better prospect, more area of development, better pay, work-life balance.

Downside is you may need to "entertain" the underwriters, brokers, etc and have to use less technical jargon in your report. Constant learning new things is a most.