Risk Control Intern (Summer 2025)

About Us

Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 1200. As a mutual insurance company with more than 3,000 employees, Westfield has revenues in excess of $4 billion and more than $10 billion in assets. 

Job Description

The Risk Control Intern is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in commercial lines insurance, risk management, and safety and health.  As an intern you will:

• Work Directly with Professionals: Support risk control experts in the field to help qualify key risk exposures impacting a customers’ businesses related to the commercial lines’ coverages provided.
• Engage with Customers: Interact with customers to promote awareness and action in managing current and emerging risks related to their operation.
• Advance Initiatives: Interact with the risk control team to enhance initiatives, resources, and capabilities that better qualify and manage risk issues affecting loss performance by business, industry, or line of coverage.
• Learn and Share Best Practices: Learn, develop, and disseminate best practices allowing a safe workplace and that mitigate the business and personal impact related to work, property, liability, and auto accidents.

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Responsibilities

• Assist in Field Surveys: Shadow experienced professionals in the field to help qualify loss exposures and safety protocols across a wide industry base.
• Support Customer Consultation: Promote awareness and action that enables a business to effectively target solutions that limit the suffering and impact of worker, property, liability, and auto related accidents.
• Data Analysis: Analyze data to identify trends and develop strategies to mitigate risks.
• Report Preparation: Contribute to the creation of detailed risk reports and recommendations allowing underwriters to understand successes and opportunities to a business’s risk management program.
• Engage in Meaningful Projects: Work on diverse projects involving research, data analysis, and problem-solving to develop innovative risk control solutions that support risk control team and customers in their risk management efforts.
• Research and Learn: Continuously learn and share safety knowledge and best practices to understand, qualify, and prevent the impact of claims on businesses, their workforce, and the community.
• Assists the business unit in completing the tasks assigned to them, which often includes, but is not limited to, project work and covering the day-to-day operations of the business unit.
• Participates in training programs, workshops, and on-the-job learning opportunities to enhance knowledge and skills related to the field or industry of the internship.
• Participates in summer internship program events, including Lunch and Learns.
• Completes assigned tasks and projects efficiently and effectively, following instructions and guidelines provided by supervisors or mentors.
• Conducts research, gathers data, and analyzes information relevant to the internship focus or assigned projects.
• Takes responsibility for administrative and support tasks of the department.
• Collaborates with colleagues, supervisors, and other stakeholders to effectively communicate progress, challenges, and ideas, and actively participates in team meetings or discussions.
• Works on projects that provide opportunity to collaborate with other interns as well as associates in other departments, ranging from data analysis to mentors.
• Identifies and resolves issues or challenges that arise during the internship, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to finding solutions.
• Demonstrates professionalism, punctuality, and a strong work ethic by being reliable, responsible, and maintaining a positive attitude towards assigned responsibilities.
• Develops business skills in communication and shadowing other professionals.
• Maintaining accurate records, documenting progress, and preparing reports or presentations as required by the internship program or supervisors.
• Attends business unit meetings as assigned and creates and delivers presentations.
• Seeks feedback from supervisors or mentors, actively seeking opportunities for improvement, and applying learning to enhance performance throughout the internship.
• For field roles, only: Expected to drive/travel at least 25% of working time to perform essential functions. This may involve traveling on short notice or other daily driving duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) and/or commensurate experience.
• Either actively enrolled in an academic institution in pursuit of a degree in Risk Management, Occupational Safety, Engineering, Business, Finance, Economics, Law, and Psychology or a relevant course of study, or is a recent college graduate, typically having attained a degree within the past 12 months.
• Valid driver's license and a driving record that conforms to company standards.

Location

Hybrid defined as three (3) or more days per week in the office

Behavioral Competencies

• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Nimble Learning