Structural Engineer

Location: UK-London

Time Type: Full time

Job 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 invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

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Job Location: London

Job Type: Permanent

Remuneration: Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications

We have a fantastic opportunity for Structural Engineer in the London.

As a Structural Engineer working within a regional surveying team, you will inspect domestic and commercial properties that have suffered damage from a peril and specify the reinstatement works required. Each instruction will involve detailed assessment, technical understanding, and clear translation of site findings into accurate specifications.

You will also manage contract administration duties, taking responsibility for the project management of agreed works under JCT. This will include preparing the specification, supporting procurement, monitoring progress on site, assessing variations, and ensuring works reach completion in line with scope, cost, and programme requirements.

Other tasks include producing technical reports, carrying out quantity surveying duties, diagnosing defects, and preparing schedules of works, building reports, and tender documentation. These activities require strong technical judgement, structured thinking, and the ability to create reliable documentation from complex situations.

You will work closely with the Domestic and Commercial Loss Adjusting teams based in the London, with relationship‑building being essential to consistent communication, reporting, and case progression.

This role offers a valuable opportunity for a Chartered Building Professional who is looking to progress within a large organisation, gain experience across a broad range of property types, and develop a strong professional reputation through high‑quality technical work.

The skills you will have when you apply:

• Professional Qualifications: Possession of MRICS Chartered Building Surveyor status, or alternatively substantial and evidential professional experience while progressing towards Chartership, underpinned by a building‑related degree, reflecting the technical expectations placed upon a male or female practitioner operating at this level.

• Licensing Requirement: A full UK driving licence, ensuring unrestricted operational mobility across varied and dispersed project locations.

• Technical and Legislative Knowledge: A comprehensive, in‑depth understanding of building construction, associated methodologies and the broad legislative and regulatory landscape governing the built environment.

• Project Planning and Control: The ability to design, coordinate and scrutinise project programmes to maintain uncompromising control over time, cost and quality parameters, ensuring no diminution of project standards by either him or her.

• Contract and Schedule Expertise: Significant experience in the preparation of schedules, contractual documentation and the administration of building contracts, enabling authoritative and consistent professional judgement.

• Personal and Interpersonal Attributes: A capacity to act with high responsibility, firm decision‑making and disciplined self‑management, while contributing constructively within wider teams, maintaining composure, articulate communication and empathetic engagement under sustained operational pressures.

What we’ll give you for this role:

Remuneration & more

• Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications

• A Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme (SIPP)

• Company car or monthly car allowance.

• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays

• Flexible working from our office or your home

Health & support

• Private healthcare plan (including pre-existing conditions)

• Life assurance

• Employee assistance programme for employee wellbeing

• Group Income Protection  

Other benefits

• Voluntary benefits – green car scheme, annual medical assessment, dental cover, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, welling and digital GP applications

•  Discounts on various products and services

This isn't just a position, it's a pivotal role in shaping our industry

At Sedgwick, you won't just build your career; you'll cultivate a team of experts. Our Sedgwick University offering empowers you to excel as well as your team members, with the most comprehensive training program in the industry which includes more than 15,000 courses on demand, training specific to roles, and opportunities to continue formal education.

Together, we're not only reshaping the insurance landscape, we’re building a legacy of talent. Come and be a catalyst for change within our industry.

Next steps for you:

Think we'd be a great match? Apply now – we want to hear from you.

As part of our commitment to you, we are proud to have a zero tolerance policy towards discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

After the closing date we will review all applications and may select some applicants for an interview (which may be virtual, or in-person).

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Sedgwick retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.