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.
We have an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Technical & Special Risks Loss Adjuster in the United Kingdom. As a Senior Loss Adjuster specialising in Technical and Special Risks, you will take ownership of complex, high-value, and technically demanding claims across a diverse portfolio.
These may include major property and engineering losses, complex business interruption, cyber-related incidents, energy and infrastructure risks, and other specialist or non-standard exposures.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will lead investigations from first notification through to settlement, providing strategic direction, technical authority, and sound judgement throughout the lifecycle of each claim.
You will work closely with insurers, brokers, insureds, legal advisers, engineers, and forensic specialists, ensuring outcomes are fair, commercially balanced, and fully defensible.
This role places you at the forefront of critical situations where claims are financially significant, reputationally sensitive, or operationally complex.
The experience and skills you will bring
- Extensive loss adjusting expertise: Significant experience handling complex, high-value, or specialist claims within technical, engineering, property, energy, cyber, or emerging risk classes.
- Technical authority: Strong policy interpretation skills and the ability to assess complex causation, liability, and quantum with confidence.
- Qualified: Chartered or nearing chartered status in a relevant field – be that ACII, ACILA, AICLA, MRICS, ICE / CEng or ACA
- Stakeholder influence: Proven ability to engage at senior level with insurers, brokers, legal counsel, engineers, and insureds, often in challenging or contentious environments.
- Leadership through expertise: Comfortable providing direction, challenge, and insight to drive claims to timely and defensible resolution.
- Organisation and resilience: Ability to manage a demanding caseload involving critical timelines, sensitive matters, and high financial exposure.
Professional development and progression
- Advanced technical learning: Continued development within technical and special risk disciplines through structured training, expert collaboration, and complex claim exposure.
- Professional recognition: Full support towards Chartered status with the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA), where applicable, and ongoing CPD.
What we’ll give you for this role
- Competitive senior-level salary
- Self-Invested Personal Pension Scheme (SIPP)
- Annual holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Flexible, hybrid working arrangements
- Private healthcare plan (including pre-existing conditions)
- Life assurance
- Group Income Protection
- Employee assistance programme for wellbeing support
- Voluntary benefits including green car scheme, dental cover, cycle-to-work scheme, season ticket loans, wellbeing tools, and digital GP services
- Discounts on a wide range of products and services