FM Research Graduate Internship 2025 Climate Risk and Resilience - Tornado Loss Database
FM Research Graduate Internship 2025 Climate Risk and Resilience - Tornado Loss Database
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Job Description
Overview
FM is a leading property insurer of the worlds largest businesses providing more than onethird of FORTUNE 1000size companies with engineeringbased risk management and property insurance solutions. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon stateoftheart lossprevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so we rely on a dynamic culturally diverse group of employees working in more than 100 countries in a variety of challenging roles.
Responsibilities
Exciting and interesting technical challenges await when you join a worldclass research team dedicated to reducing the impact of natural hazards. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon stateoftheart engineering and research.
The Climate Risk & Resilience Team at FM is seeking a creative selfmotivated individual for an internship in Norwood MA. The intern will work under the supervision of senior staff and will have the opportunity to tackle realworld science and engineering challenges in the insurance industry. The project involves:
- Cleaning past tornado loss data
- Linking these losses to known tornadoes and tornado outbreak events
- Collecting available engineering information related to the losses
- Creating a searchable GIS database
The internship is planned to last 3 to 6 months. By the end of the internship the intern will gain experience in
- Tornado research
- Insurance losses
- Wind engineering
Qualifications
We are looking for undergraduate students in good academic standing who wish to expand their research experience beyond academia. Ideal candidates will have:
- Attention to detail
- Strong analytical skills
- GIS skills (e.g. ArcGIS QGIS GDAL)
- Experience with programming languages such as MATLAB R Python and FORTRAN
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort with writing shell scripts and using APIs to automate workflows
- Familiarity with both Microsoft Windows and Linux environments
This is an inoffice role based in Norwood MA. Temporary relocation support provided for selected qualified candidate.
FM is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting developing and retaining a diverse workforce.
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Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Temp
