Insurance Manager

Company: Laing O'Rourke
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Location: Dartford
Job Description:

Based: Dartford Head Office. This role does not provide visa sponsorship.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Insurance Manager to join our growing business. The Insurance Manager will manage the insurance requirements for specific projects, arranging cover, liaising with stakeholders and dealing with claims. Reporting direct to the Group Insurance Manager, the role provides the opportunity to collaborate with internal teams, external insurers, and legal advisors to assess risk exposures and secure appropriate insurance coverage to maintain compliance with business minimum standards and contractual requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Provide support to project teams in dealing with Contract Works & Plant losses.
  • Provide guidance on insurance cover, claims notifications, liaison with loss adjusters, assistance to commercial teams in collating and presenting claims.
  • Regular liaison with brokers, loss adjusters and underwriters
  • Administration of professional indemnity policy
  • Responding to queries and providing guidance to project teams
  • Analysis of claims experience data and reporting on findings
  • Developing & implementation of business improvements
  • Preparing underwriting information and participation in insurance renewals
  • Assistance with procurement of project specific insurance policies
  • Involvement in pre-contract reviews of insurance arrangements

Personal Qualities

  • Opportunity to gain broad experience across the insurance exposures of a multi‑national construction business.
  • Scope of responsibilities can be adapted to suit the individual’s skills, experience and strengths.
  • Enthusiastic and willing to take on new responsibilities.
  • Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Confident communicating with stakeholders who may have limited insurance knowledge.

Experience & Competencies

  • Background in insurance claims, underwriting or broking preferred.
  • Experience handling construction, professional indemnity and third‑party property insurance claims desirable.
  • Good understanding of how the insurance market operates.
  • Knowledge of the construction industry is beneficial.
  • Formal insurance qualifications preferred (e.g. CII / CILA).
  • Formal training will be supported where required.
  • Opportunities to develop and expand the scope of the role will be encouraged.

About Us

Laing O’Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O’Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O’Rourke’s story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme’. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.

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Posted: April 10th, 2026