# Junior Adjuster

**Company**: Sedgwick
**Location**: Ottawa
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected.

As a Junior Adjuster, your primary purpose will be to handle losses and claims for property and casualty insurers.

**Responsibilities**

- Examine insurance policies and other records to determine insurance coverage

- Interview, telephone, and correspond with claimants and witnesses regarding claims

- Consult police and hospital records and inspect property damage to determine the extent of the company's liability

- Estimate the cost of repair, replacement, or compensation

- Prepare reports of findings and negotiate settlements with claimants

- Recommend litigation by the legal department when settlements cannot be negotiated

- Attend litigation hearings

- Revise case reserves in assigned claims files to cover probable costs

- Assist in preparing loss experience reports to help determine profitability and calculate adequate future rates

**Additional Responsibilities**

- Perform other duties as assigned

- Support the organisation's quality programs

- Travel as required

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred

- Obtain IIA-AIC designation within 12 to 18 months

- Appropriate state adjuster license is required

**Skills and Knowledge**

- Strong oral and written communication, including presentation skills

- PC literacy, including Microsoft Office products

- Demonstrated commitment to timely reporting

- Strong customer service skills

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Attention to detail and accuracy

- Good time management and organisational skills

- Ability to work independently or in a team environment

- Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies

**Work Environment**

- Consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations when applicable and appropriate

**Mental Requirements**

- Clear and conceptual thinking ability

- Excellent judgment and discretion

- Ability to handle work-related stress

- Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously

- Ability to meet deadlines

**Physical Requirements**

- Must be able to stand and/or walk for long periods of time

- Must be able to kneel, squat, or bend

- Must be able to work outdoors in hot and/or cold weather conditions

- Have the ability to climb, crawl, stoop, kneel, reaching/working overhead

- Be able to lift/carry up to 50 pounds

- Be able to push/pull up to 100 pounds

- Be able to drive up to 4 hours per day

- Must have continual use of manual dexterity

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## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- communication skills
- customer service skills
- interpersonal skills
- time management
- organisational skills

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