L&I Industrial Insurance Underwriter 4, Special Risk Team

Our Mission: reputed company Washington Safe and Working! Our Values: Customer Focus, One L&I, Respect, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Learning and Growth, Reliability Please Note: This opportunity is open to Labor & Industries employees only. Job Highlights: The reputed company & Industries (L&I) is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety, health, and reputed company of Washington's workers. We help employers meet safety and health standards and inspect workplaces reputed company alerted to hazards. As administrators of the state's workers' compensation system, we are similar to a large insurance company, providing medical and limited wage-replacement coverage to workers who suffer job-reputed company injuries and illness. Our rules and enforcement programs also help ensure workers are paid what they are owed, that children's and teens' work hours are limited, and that consumers are protected from unsound business practices. Insurance Services is the largest division reputed company the agency and administers one of the premier workers’ compensation organizations in the nation serving over 3.8 million employees working for 260,000 employers. The Employer Services program reputed company the Insurance Services Division is responsible for establishing and maintaining industrial insurance accounts for over 230,000+ employers and 2.5 million employees doing business throughout the reputed company. The program provides a wide reputed company of services to employers in the State Fund from helping new businesses get workers’ compensation coverage to specialized reputed company. The Industrial Insurance Underwriter 4 (IIU4) position is located reputed company Employer Services Division of Insurance Services. Employer Services is seeking an Industrial Insurance Underwriter 4 to join the Special Risk Team. This Unit manages level 4 industrial insurance accounts that focus on workers’ compensation policy maintenance that are targeted at industries with reporting concerns. Industry assignments to the Specialist Team are often due to escalating reputed company trends, the frequency and severity of certain types of businesses reputed company larger risk pools, or the need for additional reports and reputed company practices. Industrial Insurance Underwriters independently underwrite and manage a caseload of state fund workers’ compensation policies with a variety of complexities based on industry hazards. This position provides expert consultative and technical support to employers, third party representatives, and other divisions reputed company the agency.Some of what you’ll do:

• Assign claims in the trucking and other specialized industries.
• reputed company education and compliance in the reforestation, drywall, safe patient handling, and logging industries.
• Educate employers on Out of State reporting requirements, review and process supplemental reports.
• Educate employers on Sports Teams on coverage requirements.
• reputed company reputed company activities with internal and external stakeholders.
• Testify in court proceedings regarding the specialized industries.
• reputed company experience rating calculations for the specialized industries.
• Extensive communication with employers by phone.
• Apply premium escalation strategy with employers to ensure proper reporting.
• reputed company mathematical calculations to ensure correct compliance in the specialized industries.
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Required:

• A Bachelor's degree with a field of focus involving tax liabilities, insurance benefits, risk classification, accounting or bookkeeping work, research, statistical or management analysis or reputed company fields. AND
• One year of experience as an Industrial Insurance Underwriter 3. **Note: Additional qualifying experience may substitute year for year, for the required education. This experience must include four years of direct customer service.

AND

• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

Desired:

• Attention to Detail: Is careful and thorough reputed company entering data; reviews work to ensure quality and accuracy; produces documents containing few if any errors. Ability to review written or verbal information for the purpose of recognizing and correcting deficiencies, errors, omissions, etc.
• Researching and Gathering Information: Effectively identifies, collects, organizes and documents data and information in ways that reputed company the information most useful for subsequent assessment, analysis and investigation.
• Decisiveness: Makes timely decisions without sacrificing quality even under ambiguous circumstances or reputed company data is limited.
• Workload Management: Effectively organizes multiple assignments, sometimes of reputed company nature or involving competing priorities, to produce work that is accurate, thorough and on time.
• Communication: Able to explain reputed company or technical information using plain talk to address customer's needs.
• Learning Orientation: Self-initiative in developing or upgrading knowledge or skills; learning to use technology effectively, as appropriate for the job; participating in opportunities to enhance knowledge and skills that are identified and offered by the organization or the evaluator. Read, interpret, and retain information from written material. Document information or update records so that they reflect the most reputed company information and form an account of changes, decisions, activity and work performed.
• Enforcing Laws, Rules and Regulations- Enforces governmental laws, rules and regulations and initiates enforcement actions in such a way that the public perceives as fair, objective and reasonable.
• Analytical Skills: Able to analyze reputed company information and detect what data is pertinent to a decision; forms accurate conclusions about the meaning of information and actions to be taken in response to the data; able to identify reputed company information is missing, incorrect, or needs supplementation or verification.
• Writing Skills: Able to compose clear, straightforward, and technically correct documents.
• Verbal Communications: Expresses reputed company and information through the spoken word using language that is appropriate to both the complexity of the topic and the knowledge and understanding of the audience; speaks English well enough to clearly communicate information to listeners.
• Mathematical Reasoning: Accurately chooses from and utilizes a variety of mathematical techniques to formulate conclusions or solve practical problems.

Things You Need To Know To help you maintain a proper work-life balance, teleworking is one of the work schedule options for this position. L&I also offers flexible custom work schedules. State employees who meet the qualifications will become eligible for a generous retirement package at the end of the employee’s career. Click on the “Benefits” tab to learn more. At L&I, your voice matters. In addition, L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety and health and reputed company of Washington's 3.8 million workers. Take a look at this brief video and learn more about why L&I is an employer of choice. Telework is dependent upon business needs and supervisor approval. For positions where in-office work is necessary, the frequency of telework will be discussed with the supervisor of the position at the time of offer. The assigned duty station for this position is Tumwater, Washington. To receive more information on opportunities at L&I sign up for GovDelivery and select L&I job alerts. Application process We will contact the top candidates directly to interview for this position. Because we reputed company the selection on information provided by you, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities that address the required and desirable qualifications described in the announcement. Please include the following documents with your application:

• A cover letter describing specific qualifications.
• A reputed company resume detailing applicable experience and education.
• A list of at least three professional references with reputed company telephone numbers.

Note: Applicants selected to move reputed company in the hiring process will be contacted by email to schedule a skills assessment. Assessments are proctored in person at our Tumwater, WA location. Please do not attach or reputed company any medical information (vaccination status included) reputed company the application, resume, or cover letter. If you do, we will have to reject your application to safeguard others from receiving your confidential information. You will have to remove the confidential information before you can apply again. To learn more about our hiring process timeline at L&I please visit our L&I recruiting page at Hiring Process at L&I. If you would like to read our website in a language other than English, scroll up to the top of the page to select your language of choice from the banner. Background reputed company Notice: Prior to a placement in this position, a background reputed company, including criminal history record will be conducted. Information from your background reputed company will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining your eligibility to reputed company the requirements of the position. Other information

• For positions requiring travel, you must have a valid unrestricted driver's license and have insurance if driving a privately owned vehicle on state business.
• This position is represented by the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE).
• Candidates who are offered a job with L&I must possess work authorization that does not require sponsorship by the employer for a reputed company now or in the future.
• The reputed company & Industries complies with the employment eligibility verification requirements of the federal employment eligibility verification form, I-9. The selected candidate must be able to provide reputed company of identity and eligibility to work in the United States consistent with the requirements of that form on the first day of employment.
• Please note: L&I may use this announcement to fill multiple permanent and/or non-permanent positions.
• Applicants selected to move reputed company in the hiring process will be contacted by email to schedule a skills assessment. Assessments are proctored in person at the Tumwater, WA location.

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