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Location: We’re flexible! Our Risk Engineers are home-based with an element of travel. The role will involve Hybrid Working.
Start Date: June 2024
Closing date for applications: Sunday 5th November 2023
Are you ready to create a brighter future together?
At Zurich our brand purpose is exactly that, to create a brighter future together for our customers, partners, employees and the planet. It’s a promise to our customers that we will put their needs at the heart of everything we do. For our employees, it allows them to grow and develop together.
Our vision within ZRS is to become a global leader in risk-related services by building our proposition, delivering business value and providing a market-leading customer experience. Our insight protects our customers and our portfolios.
The Risk Engineering internships will provide career-building exposure to real jobs and real work and the opportunity to make a positive impact. Along the way you’ll get to know how we do business, what drives our people and their success, and what we put first: our customers and the things they love and want to protect.
Your summer intern programme will give you a taste of what life at Zurich could be like in one of our graduate roles. You’ll also =see how diversity and inclusion are baked into our business, evolving decision-making, driving innovative solutions and making us quite different from any other organisation.
Successful completion of your summer internship in 2024 could lead to you being offered a place on one of our graduate programmes starting in 2025.
What can I look forward to?
We want you to achieve your full potential and that’s why our internship programme is designed to build on your university studies. You'll join one of our Risk Engineering Teams and work with experienced colleagues to build a strong understanding in Zurich’s risk management process. Assisting with risk insight, influencing customer decisions and developing your technical knowledge, as well as having the opportunity to engage with the teams and colleagues right across ZRS. You'll build a wide and diverse network across the practice allowing you to enhance and test your knowledge.
This will help you build a great foundation for your future career.
This is all under pinned by a 10-week structured development programme as well as the chance to work on a UK-wide intern project where you will work with other interns across the business.
To ensure you have the best start, a dedicated buddy will be on-hand to support you throughout your summer with us. Our internships are a 10-week programme; likely start will be mid-late June.
What’s in it for you?
As well as joining a company that is passionate about sustainability and our customers, you can expect:
- £20,000 pro rata salary
- 4 days holiday for the duration of your internship
- Contribution towards private medical cover
- 12% company pension contribution
We’re also passionate about diversity and inclusion, which we have won numerous awards for. We want our people to bring the whole of themselves to work and everybody is made to feel welcome, regardless of their background, beliefs or culture
What you’ll need
- Be in your penultimate year of undergraduate study and predicted minimum 2:1 degree, ideally in an Engineering degree such as civil, chemical, mechanical or fire risk.
- At least 96 UCAS points – CCC grades (or equivalent) from 3 A-level subjects
- A* to C grade (9 to 4) in Maths and English GCSE
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to study for further professional qualifications
Here, you’ll have every opportunity to use your drive and enthusiasm to innovate the future of Zurich, where different opinions are valued, personal needs are respected, and opportunity is equal for all.
So make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported. Love what you do. Work for us.
You must have the right to work in the UK in order to apply.
