TSIB Director - SDI & Program Risk

Division: TSIB - Risk Services

Project Location(s): Hollywood, FL 33025 USA

Minimum Years Experience: 12

Travel Involved: 10-20%

Job Type: Regular

Job Classification: Experienced

Education: Bachelors Degree

Job Family: Insurance and Claims

Compensation: Salaried Exempt

Position Description

Turner Construction is one of the largest and most respected construction services companies in North America, delivering more than $20 billion in annual construction across thousands of projects worldwide.

Turner Surety & Insurance Brokerage, Inc. (TSIB) serves as the Claims Manager of record for Turner Construction and Flatiron Dragados. Construction risk is core to our platform. We integrate brokerage expertise , construction operations insight, and senior-level claims leadership to protect project economics and enterprise value across complex Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI) programs.

We are seeking a senior-level SDI Claims Director to serve as the enterprise leader for SDI claims across Turner’s national portfolio. This individual will direct the strategy, adjudication, and resolution of high-exposure subcontractor default matters while leading and developing a team of SDI claims professionals.

This role carries executive visibility and direct impact on loss outcomes, contractor relationships, and overall SDI program performance.

Reports to: Vice President of Claims

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Enterprise SDI Authority

• Serve as the senior technical authority for all significant SDI claims across Turner’s portfolio
• Lead oversight of complex, high-severity subcontractor default events, including terminations, performance failures, and completion exposures
• Protect project economics by driving disciplined, proactive claim strategies aligned with construction operations
  
  
  

Strategic Claim Leadership

• Direct SDI claims from notice through resolution, including investigation, coverage analysis, mitigation, and recovery
• Partner closely with Operations, Legal, and Risk Management to manage default events in real time
• Evaluate cost-to-complete exposure, replacement contractor strategy, and schedule impact
• Lead resolution strategies including negotiation, mediation, and litigation where necessary
  
  
  

Coverage & Program Expertise

• Provide authoritative interpretation of SDI policies, including manuscript forms, endorsements, and program-specific structures
• Analyze coverage triggers, notice requirements, and recovery pathways
• Anticipate and respond to carrier positions and potential coverage disputes
  
  
  

Carrier & Market Engagement

• Serve as primary liaison with SDI carriers and reinsurers on complex and high-value claims
• Influence claim acceptance, reserving posture, and resolution strategy
• Navigate multi-party dynamics involving carriers, brokers, reinsurers, and project stakeholders
  
  
  

Operational Integration

• Work directly with project teams during active default scenarios to guide documentation, cost tracking, and recovery positioning
• Ensure alignment between claims strategy and project execution to minimize disruption and financial exposure
• Provide real-time advisory support during critical project events
  
  
  

Portfolio Governance & Insight

• Establish and maintain consistent SDI claim governance standards across the portfolio
• Enhance reporting, documentation, and data integrity within RMIS and internal systems
• Identify trends in subcontractor performance, default drivers, and recovery outcomes to inform underwriting and prequalification strategy
  
  
  

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of approximately 3 –4 SDI claims professionals
• Provide direction, prioritization, and oversight of team workload and performance
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team environment
• Elevate technical expertise across the SDI function and support succession planning
• Skills & Experience
• 12–15 years of construction claims experience, with significant exposure to SDI or surety-related claims , Bachelor's Degree required .
• Demonstrated expertise managing subcontractor default events and complex completion exposures
• Strong understanding of:
• SDI policy structures and claims triggers
• Construction contracts and subcontractor risk allocation
• Cost-to-complete analysis and schedule impacts
• Carrier and reinsurer dynamics
• Proven leadership experience managing and developing claims professionals
• Experience working directly with construction operations teams during active loss events
• Proven ability to manage high-stakes, multi-party disputes
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate complex issues clearly and decisively
• Ability to operate independently in high-pressure, high-exposure environments
  
  
  

Preferred:

• Background in construction law, surety, or risk management
• JD, CPCU, ARM, or equivalent credentials
  
  
  

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands, talk, and hear. The employee frequently views a computer monitor and frequently uses a computer keyboard. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee is regularly required to be mobile and the employee occasionally travels both short and long distances via a variety of conveyances. The employee occasionally performs work, office locations, and/or off-site venues. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office or remote setting. The noise in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate in an office setting. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally work at construction work sites where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and risk of electrical shock. The noise in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. The employee is required to work in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and applicable laws.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer —minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.

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