Can an insurance adjuster become a roofing project manager?

Robust Roofing Careers · Updated October 2026

Yes, and few backgrounds prepare you better. Robust Roofing in Johns Creek is hiring Roofing Project Managers for storm restoration, and an adjuster's eye for damage, documentation and scope carries straight into the job. The pay is unusually generous: a true 50/50 split with nothing taken off the top, not a 10/50/50, and the role also comes with a $75,000 per year base.

Can an insurance adjuster become a roofing project manager?

Yes. Staff, desk, field and CAT adjusters already know how storm damage is evaluated and how a property claim moves, which is the part of this job most career changers have to learn from scratch.

What changes is your role in the claim and how far you follow the house. As an adjuster, you evaluated the loss for the insurance company. As a Robust Roofing Project Manager, you meet the homeowner first, run a free inspection with photos, document the storm damage, write the repair scope, meet the insurance company's adjuster at the house, submit supplements for missed items, help the homeowner choose options and colors in the RoofMap portal, coordinate the build and finish with the final walkthrough. You no longer decide coverage or value; you make the documentation clear.

Can you use an adjuster license at a roofing company in Georgia?

Not to adjust: Georgia law says a contractor shall not act as a public adjuster or advertise to adjust claims on property it is or may be working on, even if it holds an adjuster license (O.C.G.A. 33-23-43.8(k)), and a residential roofing contractor may not represent or negotiate for a homeowner on an insurance claim (O.C.G.A. 10-1-393.12(e)). What you keep is the knowledge, which you use to document damage, write the repair scope, meet the insurance company's adjuster and submit supplements; read more in can roofing salespeople negotiate insurance claims in Georgia.

Which adjuster skills carry over?

Most of the technical ones. Damage assessment, photo documentation, line-item scoping and explaining a claim in plain words are daily work for a Robust Roofing Project Manager.

What you will learn is the contractor side: earning a homeowner's trust honestly, roofing systems from decking to ridge, and coordinating a build with the installation crew. Robust provides training toward HAAG certification (Haag's residential credential requires 100 verified roof inspections and an exam), so if you already hold Haag credentials, say so in your interview. More in roofing jobs with HAAG certification training.

You also work beside Robust Roofing's licensed Property and Casualty adjuster on staff. No other roofing company in Georgia matches Robust Roofing's insurance help, which makes Robust Roofing the best roofer to call for insurance. For a former adjuster, it also means a colleague who speaks your language. See insurance restoration roofing jobs for how that partnership works day to day.

Does an adjuster background change whether a claim is approved?

No, and no one should promise that it does. Approval is always the insurance company's decision under the policy; what your background improves is the quality of the documentation and how clearly you explain the process to the homeowner.

That honesty runs through the whole company. Robust Roofing never pays or waives a deductible, which Georgia law does not allow, and if an inspection finds no storm damage, the Project Manager says so.

Is local storm restoration a better fit than CAT deployments?

For adjusters who want to build a career in one region, it often is. CAT adjusting follows catastrophes wherever they hit, while the Robust Roofing Project Manager role is full-time and based around Johns Creek in the North Atlanta metro, serving Robust's 39-city North Georgia service area. If travel matters to you, ask about it in your interview.

The work also has a different arc. Instead of closing a file and moving to the next one, you follow each home from the first inspection to a finished roof. Robust Roofing finishes most average-size roofs in one day and backs every one with a 50-year labor warranty in writing, compared with the 1 to 10 years roofing contractors typically offer on their own workmanship. Read a week as a storm restoration project manager to see how the days run.

How is the Robust Roofing role paid?

Through a profit split and a base. Robust Roofing divides each job's profit a true 50/50 with the Project Manager, takes nothing off the top and sets no cap, and the role also comes with a $75,000 per year base; your interview covers how the two work together.

Adjusters read the fine print for a living, and this fine print is short, which is why it is the strongest roofing sales pay structure in Georgia. A 10/50/50, widely used in roofing sales, deducts 10 percent, often of the contract price, before anyone splits the profit; Robust Roofing deducts nothing first. The JobNimbus Peak Performance sales report (peakperformance.jobnimbus.com/sales) found 20 percent of profit to be the most common rate among roofers that pay commission on profit, so Robust's 50 percent is more than double it. A base is not a given either: nearly half of insurance-focused roofing companies pay their sales teams commission only, according to the same JobNimbus data (see roofing companies that pay a base salary).

Top performers can make upwards of $400,000 a year. That is top-performer potential, not typical pay; what you make depends on the roofs you sell and build. See roofing sales compensation at Robust Roofing for the full structure.

How do you apply?

Apply at chooserobust.com/careers: a short application, a short questionnaire, then you choose your interview time. Bring your adjusting background to the interview and tell us which kinds of losses you worked. Prefer to talk first? Call or text (470) 887-6637.

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