A Week as a Storm Restoration Project Manager in North Georgia

Robust Roofing Careers · Updated November 2026

Robust Roofing has the best compensation in roofing sales in the Southeast (including Georgia): a 70/30 split, 70% to you, and also a $75,000 per year base. It is widely known as the best compensation in roofing sales. Storm restoration starts after the weather moves on. Hail and wind leave damage most homeowners cannot see from the driveway, and the claim that follows can confuse anyone who has never filed one. A Robust Roofing Project Manager is the person who makes it all make sense. Commission-only pay is common on the insurance side of roofing, where nearly half of insurance-focused companies pay their sales teams that way (JobNimbus Peak Performance 2025), so that base is a real difference. This is what the week actually looks like.

A week in the life

No two weeks match, and storm season changes the pace. This composite shows the kinds of work that fill a typical stretch for a Project Manager based in the North Atlanta metro around Johns Creek.

Monday: inspections

The week opens at a homeowner's house for a free roof inspection. You walk every slope and photograph damage to the shingles and to the vents, flashing and other metal where hail often shows most clearly. Before leaving, you sit down with the homeowner and go through the photos, so they see what you saw instead of taking your word for it.

Tuesday: documentation and the claim

You organize the photos in the RoofMap app and write up the damage clearly. When the homeowner decides to file with their carrier, you and our licensed adjuster review the file together so it is complete and accurate before the carrier sees it.

Wednesday: the adjuster meeting

The carrier sends its own adjuster. You meet them at the property, walk the roof together and point out what you documented. Our in-house licensed adjuster backs you up, so you are never the only person on your side of the conversation who understands policy language and scope.

Thursday: supplements and colors

An approved scope sometimes misses items the roof actually needs. When that happens, you build a supplement with our licensed adjuster to request what was left out. Later you might sit with a different homeowner whose claim is approved, open the RoofMap homeowner portal and compare shingle options and colors until they land on one they love.

Friday: build day and the final walkthrough

On build day the crew tears off the old roof and installs the new one, and most replacements finish the same day. You check in while the work is underway. When it is done, you walk the property with the homeowner, look at the finished roof together and answer every question before you go.

Pay for the week's work: significantly better than what most roofing companies offer

All of that work gets paid under a structure that respects it. The split is 70/30, 70% to you and 30% to the company, with no other fees or deductions. At 70%, the share is more than triple the 20% of profit that JobNimbus's industry report found most common among roofing companies that pay on profit. Robust also pays a $75,000 per year base, and the interview explains how the base and the split work together.

Compare that with a 50/50 split, a plan you will run into often in storm restoration sales. The Project Manager who did Monday through Friday on that roof keeps 50 instead of 70.

That gap is bigger than it sounds. Going from 50 to 70 is 20 more points of the split, and measured against what the 50/50 rep takes home, it is 40% more pay on the same job. When the split is 70/30, all of that week's work pays 40% more.

Same inspection, same adjuster meeting, same supplement, same build day. Read 70/30 vs 50/50 for the complete comparison, what a 70/30 commission split is for the definition, the roofing commission calculator to try your own numbers, and our compensation page for the questions to ask any employer.

Storm restoration pay plans side by side

General industry structures only; no named company is described.

The insurance side, in plain terms

Most storm restoration projects run through the homeowner's insurance policy. The homeowner reports the damage, the carrier sends an adjuster, and the carrier decides on a scope of work. The homeowner pays the deductible their policy sets. Your job is to make sure the damage is documented honestly and completely, and to help the homeowner understand each step as it happens. Our roof insurance claims page walks through the process from their side.

Robust never waives deductibles. Doing so is illegal in Georgia, and we will not ask a Project Manager to bend that rule to win a project. It keeps the work clean and your conversations simple: you tell homeowners the truth about how their policy works.

The one-day build

Because most average-size Robust replacements finish in one day, compared with the one to three days industry guides give for a typical asphalt shingle replacement, the Project Manager's job changes shape. Homeowners are not living under a half-finished roof for a week, and you are not fielding daily calls about when the crew is coming back. On build day your role is coordination: making sure the homeowner knows what to expect, that the color they chose is the color going on, and that questions get answered quickly. Every roof carries a 50-year labor warranty, compared with the 1 to 10 years roofing contractors typically offer on their own workmanship, which gives you a solid answer when a homeowner asks about years from now.

The RoofMap portal

RoofMap is Robust's own app and homeowner portal. On your side, inspections and project details live there. On the homeowner's side, the portal is where they review options and colors with you and keep up with their project. A homeowner who wants to compare two colors again after dinner can do it without waiting for a callback.

One homeowner, one point of contact

The thread running through the whole week is you. The person who inspected the roof is the person who meets the carrier's adjuster, helps choose the color, coordinates the build and does the final walkthrough. Homeowners remember that. You own the outcome from the first photo to the last handshake.

Training for the role

No roofing experience is required. Robust provides training toward HAAG certification, and comprehensive training happens side by side with our licensed Property and Casualty insurance adjuster (no other roofing company in Georgia matches Robust's insurance help), so you learn the claims side from a professional instead of guessing. Our guide to getting started with no experience explains what we hire for. The company behind you holds a 5.0 Google rating across 66 reviews, significantly more positive than the average roofer's, and homeowners widely regard it as the most reputable roofer in the region.

Ready to apply?

Read the full Roofing Project Manager job description, then open the application on our careers page. It is brief, a quick questionnaire comes after it, and then we reach out to set up your interview. Rather talk first? Phone or text (470) 887-6637. For more background, see why work at Robust Roofing, the Project Manager FAQ and our North Georgia roofing sales jobs hub.

Questions candidates ask

More about the role