Risk Management Director Location: Kansas City, MO, US, 64106 **Best People + Right Culture. These are the driving forces behind JE Dunn's success.** **By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company's rewards, we've found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 100+ years.** **Our diverse teams around the country strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places everyday, and we need inspired people like you to join us in building authentic partnerships.** **Role Summary** The Risk Management Director leads the Risk Management team and is responsible for strategy, execution and continuous improvement of the Company's insurance, surety, captive, claims and various risk compliance programs. This role closely partners with groups across the organization including Legal, Accounting/Finance, Operations, HR, and external partners such as brokers, carriers, and sureties to align risk strategy with JE Dunn's business objectives, protect the company's assets, support growth and inform risk-based decision making. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn. + Autonomy & Decision-Making: Makes decisions on non-routine matters, provides recommendations to supervisor, and refers all exceptions to supervisor. + Career Path: Various **Key Role Responsibilities - Core** _RISK LEADERSHIP FAMILY- CORE_ + Establishes the Risk Management department strategy, governance model, annual priorities, service expectations, and performance standards for the Company, building partnerships to align risk strategy with business priorities. + Leads annual, triennial, and other scheduled procurement, placement, renewal, and administration of corporate insurance, contractor-controlled insurance programs (CCIP), subcontractor default insurance (SDI), captive insurance, builder's risk, project-specific policies, surety-related programs, and other risk transfer solutions. + Oversees project-specific, owner-provided, joint venture, subsidiary, investment, and development-related insurance placements and risk transfer structures, including review of unique or high-risk coverage issues. + Oversees all aspects of the insurance program administration, including exposure tracking, enrollments, and compliance with program requirements. Collaborates with other internal teams on insurance pricing, premium charges, and risk financing & allocation. + Leads or supports the claims governance process for subcontractor default, builder's risk, auto, workers' compensation, general liability, bond, and other insured claims, including reserve review, claim reviews, settlement strategy, loss trend analysis, carrier/TPA performance, and coordination with Legal, Accounting, Safety and other departments, as needed. + Oversees the processing, payment, resolution, and financial tracking of complex, high-exposure, or strategically significant insurance and subcontractor default claims in coordination with Legal, Accounting, Finance, Operations, brokers, carriers, TPAs, and outside advisors. + Oversees trade partner financial risk evaluation, contractor prequalification, and subcontractor default underwriting; and leads owner creditworthiness analysis to reduce enterprise risk and support project execution. + Oversees lower-tier insurance certificate review processes, program enrollment, and other related risk management compliance activities. + Oversees surety agency and bond services, including bond authorization requests, bond issuance, riders, bondability letters, joint venture bonds, surety submissions, surety billing and payments, rate verification, owner inquiries, final bond closeouts, and surety relationship management. + Leads captive insurance company strategy and administration, including underwriting support, policy development, placement, reserve setting, collateral strategy, claims handling, actuarial coordination, board support, rate development, and evaluation of captive growth opportunities. + Develops and maintains risk dashboards, claim trend reporting, key performance indicators, cost-of-risk reporting, and executive-level risk insights for leadership decision making. + Negotiates, manages, and oversees strategic relationships and contractual arrangements with brokers, carriers, sureties, TPAs, actuaries, consultants, vendors, and other risk service providers to preserve capacity, optimize program structure, and support JE Dunn's growth and competitive positioning. + Advises Operations, Marketing, and project teams on risk-related owner discussions, RFPs, prequalification submissions, insurance requirements, surety support, risk product positioning, and project-specific risk mitigation. + Partners with Safety/IPS, HR, Legal, Operations, and other enterprise owners on workers' compensation, auto/MVR governance, safety-related loss trends, and risk mitigation