Surveyor (South East Region)

Are you a skilled Surveyor who values work-life balance and wants to be part of a company that truly puts its people first?

We’re proud to be ranked among the top 10 best companies to work for, and we’re looking for an enthusiastic Domestic Property Surveyor to join our dynamic adjusting team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone seeking a long-term career with genuine training and development prospects.

The Role

To offer financial, technical and contractual support to Admiral’s Internal Adjuster Network. Assessing complex domestic property caims, through a combination of:

• Reviewing and approving repair schedules and scopes of work produced by members of our internal adjusters and wider external Adjuster network.
• Surveying residential property damage, determining the cause and delivering a schedule of works

Your focus will be on ensuring that we deliver great customer outcomes whilst simultaneously ensuring claims costs are properly managed.

You will manage a wide range of building repair projects within the claims portfolio, liaising closely with, customers, colleagues and our supply chain. This will require time spent on site as well as within a hybrid office environment and visiting members of our supply chain.

Actively engage in the process of driving continuous improvement in our claims handling through:

• Providing technical assistance on complex losses, large value claims and complaint cases
• Collaborative review of specific cases to identify areas of leakage and contribute to root cause analysis
• Providing coaching and development opportunities for other members of the department. 
• Contractor management throughout the life cycle of allocated cases
• Financial reconciliation of initial scopes, quotes, estimates, variation orders, and final accounts
• Observation of supplier performance on a claim by claim and feeding back into our wider supply chain function
• Providing technical advice to members of the claims department to aid in their handling of domestic property damage claims
• Ensure you maintain up to date knowledge and awareness of technical and commercial trends and issues, playing an active role in product & process improvement

Skills & Experience

• Ability to manage your own workload on a day-to-day basis
• Previous hands-on experience in a professional surveying environment 
• Professional QS/Building Surveying qualification or equivalent preferred
• MCIOB, IOSH or NEBOSH qualified would be desirable or similar is desirable
• Chartered status and a current member of a professional body i.e. MCIOB or RICS is desirable
• BDMA Ins Tech or equivalent desired
• Health and Safety – ROSPA or equivalent
• Experience of contract negotiations and working with a schedule of rates
• Commercial awareness
• Flexibility to travel as and when is required
• Knowledge of current application of building regulations and planning controls within domestic residential property
• Experience of working within the insurance repair market

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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