Hang Up the Tool-belt Without Losing Your Building Edge
Tired of 5:30 AM starts, chasing subcontractors, unpaid rainy days, and the physical wear-and-tear of site life? Or are you a residential estimator feeling burned out by relentless quoting deadlines and unstable builder margins?
You’ve built the technical knowledge; now it’s time to let it work for you in a salaried corporate role.
One of Australia's fastest-growing, national general insurance groups is hiring multiple permanent Desktop Building Claims Assessors to join dedicated property assessment hubs in North Lakes and Kawana.
What Your Day Looks Like
In this role, you leave site hazards and wet weather behind. Working from an air-conditioned corporate desk, you are the technical decision-maker on domestic property damage claims across Australia:
...Assess Structural Damage: Review high-definition site photos, drone footage, and engineering reports to pinpoint damage causation (distinguishing insured events from maintenance or age-related defects).
Challenge & Control Scopes: Use your practical building experience to scrutinise builder quotes, cut unnecessary margin fat, challenge excessive line items, and establish realistic repair scopes.
Commercial Negotiation: Direct conversations with panel builders, suppliers, and homeowners to reach fair, sustainable repair costs and authorise scopes of work.
Protect the Customer: Authorise emergency make-safe works to safeguard families following major weather events, identifying vulnerable policyholders who need priority care.
Ensure Quality: Audit straight-through scopes to maintain pricing integrity and prevent estimating leakage across the business.
What Makes This a Career-Defining Move
Financial Certainty: A reliable permanent package between $81,000 – $108,000 (inclusive of super, and depending on experience), paid every cycle without worrying about weather downtime or building insolvencies.
Your Weekends Back: A standard 38-hour corporate schedule with predictable hours and true work-life separation. When you shut your computer down, your workday is finished.
Local Lifestyle: Choose between prime corporate hubs in North Lakes or Kawana, Ditch commute into Brisbane's CBD.
Off-the-Tools Career Mobility: A clear stepping stone from trades or site estimating into technical assessing, major loss adjusting, team management, and fraud investigation.
Who We’re Looking For
Trade / Construction Background: Qualified Carpenters, Builders, Site Supervisors, Leading Hands, or Residential Estimators ready to transition off the tools.
Diagnostic Building Knowledge: A strong understanding of how homes are put together, where water enters, and what residential structural repairs actually cost.
Confidence to Negotiate: The assertiveness to challenge inflated builder quotes constructively, back up your pricing logic, and keep contractors accountable.
Tech Confidence: Comfortable working across multiple computer screens, reviewing digital documents, and navigating modern claims software.
Insurance claims or assessing experience is valued, but your hands-on construction knowledge and commercial mindset are what matter most.
If this sounds like the new change you are looking for, Click to apply now!
Please note only Shortlisted candidates will be contact.
At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.
