FM Research Graduate Internship 2025 Climate Risk and Resilience - Tornado Loss Database
Job ID 2025-15400 Date posted 01/24/2025 Primary Location Norwood, Massachusetts Hiring Range: $28.00 - $33.00 Workstyle On-SiteOverview
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Full Time
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Level: Mid
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Travel: Yes
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Responsibilities
FM is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention 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.
Exciting and interesting technical challenges await when you join a world-class research team dedicated to reducing the impact of natural hazards. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art engineering and research.
The Climate Risk & Resilience Team at FM is seeking a creative, self-motivated individual for an internship in Norwood, MA. The intern will work under the supervision of senior staff and will have the opportunity to tackle real-world 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
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 in-office 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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