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About HDI Global Insurance Company
HDI Global Insurance Company is a commercial property and casualty insurer headquartered in Chicago, IL. As a wholly owned subsidiary of HDI Global SE, we manage the industrial lines division of the Talanx Group. With an international network spanning over 150 countries, we deliver sophisticated domestic and global insurance solutions to U.S.-based multinational and middle-market companies across a wide range of industries.
With Xcelerate29, HDI is shaping its future by becoming a Trusted Global Player, achieving Next-level Excellence, and building a Forward-thinking Organisation. This direction helps HDI Global lead the profitable growth game as a globally connected business, raise the bar every day through stronger underwriting, claims, and investment performance, and win tomorrow by starting today with a lean, fast, resilient, and future-ready organisation. Together, these priorities support profitable growth, sustainable profitability, global consistency, digital transformation, AI acceleration, smart cost leadership, and stronger collaboration across teams and markets. They also reflect our focus on being a workplace of choice by building a future-ready workforce where people learn, grow, adapt to technology change, and contribute to long-term success.
We are hiring a Marine Risk Engineer who will provide advanced technical risk assessment and consulting services for marine and transportation-related exposures. This role supports underwriting and client risk management strategies through detailed risk evaluations of cargo, logistics operations, warehousing, ports and terminals, marine transportation networks, and supply chain risks. The Marine Risk Engineer will act as a trusted technical advisor to underwriting teams and clients, helping identify risk improvement opportunities and supporting strategic account management. This description aligns with HDI's Marine underwriting and Risk Consulting functions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform comprehensive on-site and virtual marine risk assessments, including evaluations of logistics operations, warehousing facilities, ports and terminals, cargo handling practices, transportation networks, and supply chain exposures.
- Generate detailed, high-quality marine risk engineering reports in a timely manner to document exposures, evaluate risk quality, and provide actionable recommendations using proprietary tools and systems.
- Collaborate closely with marine underwriting teams to assess risk quality, analyze cargo and transportation exposures on new and renewal business, and support informed underwriting decisions and preferred risk selection.
- Deliver advanced risk engineering consultation to customers, including cargo loss prevention strategies, supply chain risk management, warehouse and storage assessments, catastrophe exposure analysis, and transportation risk mitigation recommendations.
- Support the management of complex and multinational marine accounts by providing account-level engineering services aligned with underwriting objectives and client risk management strategies.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships by serving as a trusted advisor and helping clients implement proactive risk management, cargo protection, loss prevention, and operational resilience practices.
- Evaluate exposure accumulations involving warehouses, stock throughput programs, ports, terminals, and international transit routes, providing technical insight into risk quality and potential loss scenarios.
- Provide technical insight on emerging marine, logistics, and supply chain risks, as well as industry loss trends and best practices, to enhance risk evaluation methodologies and underwriting performance.
- Collaborate with risk consulting colleagues and external specialists to support large and specialized marine accounts.
- Mentor and support less experienced risk engineers when appropriate, sharing technical knowledge and contributing to the development of team expertise.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Logistics, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in Marine Risk Engineering, Marine Surveying, Marine Insurance, Transportation Risk Management, Logistics Operations, or a related technical field.
- Strong technical understanding of marine insurance risk evaluation, cargo transportation, warehousing operations, port and terminal risks, stock throughput exposures, and global supply chain operations.
- Experience conducting risk assessments, operational reviews, cargo surveys, or loss prevention evaluations for marine, transportation, or logistics-related risks.
- Proven ability to collaborate with underwriting teams and provide strategic risk insights that support underwriting decisions and portfolio management.
- Strong analytical, communication, and client relationship management skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of marine cargo handling, warehousing standards, supply chain resilience, catastrophe exposures, and transportation risk management preferred.
- Experience supporting multinational clients and global insurance programs is highly desirable.
- Professional certifications such as AMIM, ARM, CPCU, Certified Marine Surveyor, or other relevant industry credentials are preferred.
- Proficient computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office products).
- Ability to travel (up to 30%) for client site visits, cargo inspections, and risk assessments.
Compensation and Benefits:
Base salary range for this position is $120,000–$150,000 plus eligibility for a performance-based annual bonus. Actual compensation will be based on experience, education, and geographic location.
We offer a competitive benefits package, including:
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off
- Sick Leave
- Medical
- Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)
- Telemedicine
- Wellness Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Dental
- Vision
- Accident & Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Dependent Care FSA
- Group and Voluntary Life Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Pet Insurance
- Transit and Parking benefits
Additional Information
HDI Global Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Recruitment Agencies: All resumes submitted without prior HR authorization will be considered unsolicited.
HDI Global Insurance Company participates in E-Verify.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screen. Testing will be conducted in compliance with applicable state and local laws.
Marine Risk Engineer
About HDI Global Insurance Company
HDI Global Insurance Company is a commercial property and casualty insurer headquartered in Chicago, IL. As a wholly owned subsidiary of HDI Global SE, we manage the industrial lines division of the Talanx Group. With an international network spanning over 150 countries, we deliver sophisticated domestic and global insurance solutions to U.S.-based multinational and middle-market companies across a wide range of industries.
With Xcelerate29, HDI is shaping its future by becoming a Trusted Global Player, achieving Next-level Excellence, and building a Forward-thinking Organisation. This direction helps HDI Global lead the profitable growth game as a globally connected business, raise the bar every day through stronger underwriting, claims, and investment performance, and win tomorrow by starting today with a lean, fast, resilient, and future-ready organisation. Together, these priorities support profitable growth, sustainable profitability, global consistency, digital transformation, AI acceleration, smart cost leadership, and stronger collaboration across teams and markets. They also reflect our focus on being a workplace of choice by building a future-ready workforce where people learn, grow, adapt to technology change, and contribute to long-term success.
We are hiring a Marine Risk Engineer who will provide advanced technical risk assessment and consulting services for marine and transportation-related exposures. This role supports underwriting and client risk management strategies through detailed risk evaluations of cargo, logistics operations, warehousing, ports and terminals, marine transportation networks, and supply chain risks. The Marine Risk Engineer will act as a trusted technical advisor to underwriting teams and clients, helping identify risk improvement opportunities and supporting strategic account management. This description aligns with HDI's Marine underwriting and Risk Consulting functions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform comprehensive on-site and virtual marine risk assessments, including evaluations of logistics operations, warehousing facilities, ports and terminals, cargo handling practices, transportation networks, and supply chain exposures.
- Generate detailed, high-quality marine risk engineering reports in a timely manner to document exposures, evaluate risk quality, and provide actionable recommendations using proprietary tools and systems.
- Collaborate closely with marine underwriting teams to assess risk quality, analyze cargo and transportation exposures on new and renewal business, and support informed underwriting decisions and preferred risk selection.
- Deliver advanced risk engineering consultation to customers, including cargo loss prevention strategies, supply chain risk management, warehouse and storage assessments, catastrophe exposure analysis, and transportation risk mitigation recommendations.
- Support the management of complex and multinational marine accounts by providing account-level engineering services aligned with underwriting objectives and client risk management strategies.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships by serving as a trusted advisor and helping clients implement proactive risk management, cargo protection, loss prevention, and operational resilience practices.
- Evaluate exposure accumulations involving warehouses, stock throughput programs, ports, terminals, and international transit routes, providing technical insight into risk quality and potential loss scenarios.
- Provide technical insight on emerging marine, logistics, and supply chain risks, as well as industry loss trends and best practices, to enhance risk evaluation methodologies and underwriting performance.
- Collaborate with risk consulting colleagues and external specialists to support large and specialized marine accounts.
- Mentor and support less experienced risk engineers when appropriate, sharing technical knowledge and contributing to the development of team expertise.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Logistics, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in Marine Risk Engineering, Marine Surveying, Marine Insurance, Transportation Risk Management, Logistics Operations, or a related technical field.
- Strong technical understanding of marine insurance risk evaluation, cargo transportation, warehousing operations, port and terminal risks, stock throughput exposures, and global supply chain operations.
- Experience conducting risk assessments, operational reviews, cargo surveys, or loss prevention evaluations for marine, transportation, or logistics-related risks.
- Proven ability to collaborate with underwriting teams and provide strategic risk insights that support underwriting decisions and portfolio management.
- Strong analytical, communication, and client relationship management skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of marine cargo handling, warehousing standards, supply chain resilience, catastrophe exposures, and transportation risk management preferred.
- Experience supporting multinational clients and global insurance programs is highly desirable.
- Professional certifications such as AMIM, ARM, CPCU, Certified Marine Surveyor, or other relevant industry credentials are preferred.
- Proficient computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office products).
- Ability to travel (up to 30%) for client site visits, cargo inspections, and risk assessments.
Compensation and Benefits:
Base salary range for this position is $120,000–$150,000 plus eligibility for a performance-based annual bonus. Actual compensation will be based on experience, education, and geographic location.
We offer a competitive benefits package, including:
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off
- Sick Leave
- Medical
- Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)
- Telemedicine
- Wellness Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Dental
- Vision
- Accident & Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Dependent Care FSA
- Group and Voluntary Life Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Pet Insurance
- Transit and Parking benefits
Additional Information
HDI Global Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Recruitment Agencies: All resumes submitted without prior HR authorization will be considered unsolicited.
HDI Global Insurance Company participates in E-Verify.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screen. Testing will be conducted in compliance with applicable state and local laws.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Marine Technician
Document your marine certifications before applying
Transport Canada or DGAM credentials are strong, but CBP officers evaluate whether your certification maps to a U.S. specialty occupation. Carry official transcripts, license copies, and any endorsements that demonstrate hands-on diagnostic or systems expertise.
Target commercial maritime employers with documented TN history
Shipyards, offshore service companies, and marine equipment manufacturers regularly sponsor TN visa workers. Prioritize employers whose HR teams already understand TN documentation requirements, since first-time TN sponsors often slow down the offer process.
Search TN-sponsored Marine Technician roles on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters job listings by TN visa sponsorship availability, so you're not guessing which employers will support your application. Use it to find Marine Technician openings from employers already set up to file.
Get your offer letter to specify the TN occupation category
CBP requires the offer letter to explicitly reference the TN professional category under USMCA. A vague letter listing only your job title can result in a secondary inspection or denial. Ask your employer to name the applicable TN category in writing.
Prepare for CBP questions about employer and project scope
Canadian applicants entering at the port of entry face live questioning from CBP officers. Be ready to explain the vessel types you'll service, your reporting structure, and whether the role is project-based or permanent, since contract ambiguity raises flags.
Understand that Mexican applicants need a consular appointment
Unlike Canadians, Mexican professionals must apply at a U.S. consulate rather than at the border. USCIS processes the petition in advance, and wait times at Mexican consulates vary by location. Factor this into your timeline when negotiating a start date.
Marine Technician TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does the Marine Technician role qualify for TN visa status?
Marine Technician can qualify under the TN visa if the role meets the specialty occupation standard for technical or engineering-related work. CBP evaluates whether the position requires specialized knowledge and relevant credentials. Roles focused on diagnostics, systems integration, or marine engineering equipment carry the strongest classification arguments.
How does TN visa sponsorship for Marine Technicians compare to H-1B?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so there's no waiting for an annual selection cycle. H-1B visa requires employer sponsorship through USCIS with a multi-month processing window and lottery risk. For Canadian and Mexican Marine Technicians with a qualifying job offer, TN is a faster and more predictable path.
Where can I find Marine Technician jobs that offer TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for TN visa job seekers and filters listings by sponsorship availability. Most general job boards don't surface TN-specific sponsorship data, so you can waste time applying to employers who won't support your visa status. Searching on Migrate Mate narrows your focus to employers already prepared to file.
What documents do I need to bring as a Canadian Marine Technician applying at the border?
You need a valid Canadian passport, a detailed offer letter that references the TN professional category, proof of your credentials or certifications, and any supporting documentation showing relevant experience. CBP officers may ask for transcripts or license copies, so carry originals or certified copies rather than relying on digital files.
Can I switch Marine Technician employers while on TN status?
Yes, but you can't start with the new employer until the TN is approved for that role. Canadians can apply at a port of entry with the new offer letter. Mexicans need a new consular appointment. Your current TN status doesn't automatically transfer, so coordinate your start date carefully to avoid a gap in authorized work status.