Sr. Loss Control Specialist

Come build with us. Backed by a 100-year legacy, CopperPoint is a specialty insurance company with deep expertise in Workers' Compensation and a growing Property and Casualty offering. Now we are expanding into the Southeast with a brand-new presence in Alpharetta, Georgia, and this is your chance to help shape it from the ground up. At our core is a simple belief that has guided us for a century: people taking care of people. We have an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Loss Control Specialist. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to evaluate complex and high-severity risks while providing advanced technical guidance to underwriting and leadership. You’ll partner closely with underwriting and distribution to support thoughtful risk selection, pre-bind evaluations, and strategic growth opportunities within an emerging territory. This position also offers the opportunity to influence the development of a new and evolving book of business while strengthening enterprise consistency through mentoring, standards development, and collaboration across regions. Job responsibilities: Acts as an enterprise-level risk and safety authority, providing the highest level of technical Loss Control expertise to underwriting, producers, and policyholders.Partners with underwriting, business development, and distribution to support new business production, including participation in agency visits and consultative pre-bind risk evaluations for targeted opportunities.Influences risk selection, pricing, and underwriting strategy by providing timely, field-informed insight on prospective and renewal accounts.Allocates time across growth support and portfolio service activities based on territory maturity, underwriting priorities, and risk/exposure characteristics.Performs the most complex and technically challenging risk evaluations, exercising mastery-level expertise and judgment to assess physical exposures alongside leadership effectiveness, supervisory practices, learning systems, and claims management maturity.Interprets portfolio-level assessment findings to identify risk patterns, drivers, and trajectories that inform enterprise underwriting judgment and Loss Control strategy.Translates assessment insights into prioritized service strategies, ensuring Loss Control resources are focused on the highest-impact risk areas.Collaborates closely with underwriting on complex account decisions, contributing to enterprise profitability, retention, and risk-selection outcomes.Serves as an enterprise-recognized subject-matter expert, advising underwriting leadership, Loss Control leadership, and cross-functional partners on emerging risks, industry trends, and complex account strategies.Represents the Loss Control function in agency and policyholder engagements, reinforcing technical expertise and organizational credibility.Develops technical resources, training materials, and internal or external communications that support Loss Control practices and industry knowledge.Provides leadership through influence by driving cross-regional alignment in risk-evaluation methodology, interpretation standards, and technical quality.Establishes and reinforces consistent application of structured risk-evaluation standards across regions, ensuring findings are evidence-based, auditable, and comparable enterprise-wide.Leads the development of technical standards, practice guidelines, tools, templates, and advanced training programs that build department-wide and enterprise-level Loss Control capability.Leads or significantly contributes to enterprise-wide initiatives, SME committees, and cross-functional projects that advance technical standards, consistency, and overall, Loss Control effectiveness.Provides strategic mentoring and technical coaching to Specialists, Senior Consultants, and Consultants, with measurable impact on professional judgment, capability development, and performance outcomes.Conducts advanced industrial hygiene evaluations and interprets complex data to inform enterprise-level risk management strategies. Qualifications/Competencies: Education: BS/BA college degree in risk management or safety and health preferred; or equivalent full-time work experience on a year-for-year basis.Experience Baseline: Minimum of 10 years of Loss Control experience within an insurance carrier, or a blended equivalent of 5 years of insurance carrier experience alongside at least 5 years of senior-level corporate safety industry experience.Experience Qualifiers: Must be a recognized enterprise-level technical authority with a sustained history of partnering closely with underwriting leadership on high-severity, complex account strategies. Requires a proven track record of leading cross-regional or enterprise-wide initiatives, developing organizational technical standards, delivering strategic mentoring with measurable peer performance impacts, and producing market-facing thought-leadership content.Demonstrated ability to operate with an entrepreneurial, builder-oriented mindset in an emerging territory, including effectively navigating ambiguity, establishing new relationships, and shaping early-stage service and engagement strategies aligned to underwriting and growth objectives.Mastery-level technical expertise across complex and high-severity industrial exposures, with the ability to evaluate risk and provide guidance on challenging or unusual operations.Advanced skill in interpreting portfolio-level assessment data, identifying patterns, and applying findings to inform underwriting and Loss Control strategy.Strong organizational and project management capability to support cross-regional alignment initiatives, define technical standards, and contribute to practice development.Advanced communication and consulting skills to represent the function inMastery-level communication, thought leadership, and influential presence to represent loss control in complex discussions, deliver training, and influence internal and external stakeholders.Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of commercial insurance.Intermediate to senior level PC skills to effectively utilize the various applications within Microsoft Office Suite.Master communication skills both in written and verbal form to effectively listen; turn resistance into cooperation; receive criticism in a professional manner; to properly compose business correspondence, service plans and facilitate presentations to CopperPoint’s agency partners and policyholder’s executives and managers.Strongly preferred experience in construction-focused risks across both Workers’ Compensation and Property & Casualty lines. - Preference for candidates with multi-line Loss Control experience and demonstrated involvement in pre-bind risk evaluation, new business development support, or agency-facing activities. Benefits: Employees and their families are eligible to participate in CopperPoint Insurance Companies benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, a health savings account, a flexible spending account, and a 401k plan.We provide some benefits at no cost to the employee (Basic Life Insurance and AD&D at two times an employee’s annual salary, Short- and Long-term Disability coverage, and Employee Assistant Plan).Employees will accrue 0.0846 hours of Paid Time Off (PTO) per paid hour, which may total 22 days a year. In addition, employees will also receive 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Founded in 1925, CopperPoint Insurance Companies is a leading provider of workers’ compensation and commercial insurance solutions. With an expanded Line of insurance products and a growing ten-state footprint in the western United States, CopperPoint embodies stability for policyholders in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Holding Company is the corporate parent of Arizona-based CopperPoint Insurance Companies, Alaska National Insurance Company, and other CopperPoint Insurance Entities. CopperPoint’s culture of compassion extends to the community through employee volunteerism, corporate matching, Board service, program sponsorships, and in-kind contributions. We empower employees by providing 12 hours of paid volunteer time annually and matching their personal contributions to the charities of their choice up to $500 per year. In 2020, CopperPoint employees reported 3,500 volunteer hours. CopperPoint offers a competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits package including major medical, dental, and vision and a wide range of competitive benefits programs, generous matching contributions to your 401(k) plan, generous paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and other education benefits and business casual dress. CopperPoint is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, ancestry or citizenship status, genetic information, pregnancy status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal or local law. CopperPoint maintains a drug-free workplace.