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Webinar: Career Diversity - Insurance Sector

Webinar: Career Diversity - Insurance Sector
  • Date From 15th June 2022
  • Date To 15th June 2022
  • Price Free of charge, open to all.
  • Location Online: 20:00 NZDT. Duration 1 hour.

Overview

Chemical engineers learn a set of incredibly useful tools and skills as a part of our day to day job. The analytical aptitude and problem solving mind-set we have are highly valuable differentiators, that have an application outside of the engineering sector. Does this sound like familiar rhetoric from your old lecturer? How can we really transfer ourselves?

Risk management is something that is hammered into chemical engineers from day one, though we would it recognise as “process safety”, but the same risk management tools and methodology which are used in a chemical plant risk assessment, are exactly the same as those used by the financial sector to determine the quality of risk a business is.

This presentation will discuss the familiar looking risk management principals, how they are used in the finance sector, the role and impact that risk engineers have in the finance sector from our analysis, and how risk engineers can be specialised or stay generalised.

For over six years and still going, Chris now spends his time telling companies how their business can burn down or blow up. And he really enjoys it!

Speaker

Chris Standing, Head of Risk Engineering & Consulting, Crombie Lockwood

Chris graduated with a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He was then fortunate enough to get a job which sent him travelling around the world, spending three years in ten different countries. He worked on oil refinery commissioning, start-ups and turnarounds, and in his final assignment as “crew chief” he was leading a team of five others, and had earned his Chartership.

Coming off the road, Chris took a research and development role in Chicago. He lived and worked there for four years, on pilot and demo plants, and led new product development projects. His notable accomplishments during this time were a six sigma black belt, writing two US patents, some Honeywell trade secrets (but don’t ask him about those….he can’t remember the details anyway) and leading a $2M USD pilot plant upgrade.

In 2015, he followed his now wife to New Zealand, and after a short stint at a stainless steel fabricator, entered the world of insurance as a risk engineer.

Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the New Zealand Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

20:00–21:00 NZDT.

Software

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