Operational Risk & Safety Coach - freelance opportunities

At dss+, you don’t just deliver projects - you help save lives, improve performance, and build a more sustainable future.
We are a purpose-led global consultancy partnering with organisations in high-risk and asset-intensive industries to solve complex operational challenges across safety, operational excellence, and sustainability.
With a heritage rooted in DuPont’s industrial operations, we combine deep expertise, practical problem-solving, and digital innovation to deliver measurable and lasting impact for our clients.

This role focuses on delivering high-quality outcomes through expertise in operational risk management, safety, and behavioural coaching within complex operational environments.
You will work as part of a dss+ delivery team, supporting a global client to drive meaningful and sustainable change across their Dutch operations.

You will play a key role in delivering coaching and training interventions to strengthen safety culture, improve risk awareness, and embed sustainable behavioural change across client operations.

• Deliver on-site coaching and training to leadership teams to strengthen safety culture and behaviours

• Support the identification of safety and operational risk improvement opportunities

• Apply operational risk management expertise to drive practical, sustainable improvements

• Work closely with dss+ teams and client stakeholders to align delivery and maximise impact

• Facilitate workshops, coaching sessions, and behavioural interventions

• Reinforce leadership capability and accountability for health, safety, and risk management

• Contribute to measurable improvements in safety performance and operational discipline

• Significant experience in operational risk management and workplace safety

• Proven experience delivering coaching and training to leadership teams

• Strong understanding of safety and risk management within hazardous or asset-intensive environments

• Experience supporting behavioural and cultural change programmes

• Strong coaching, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills

• Ability to influence leadership behaviours and decision-making

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability

• Ability to translate risk insights into practical, actionable improvements

• Willingness to work on client sites across the Netherlands

• Availability to work on a freelance/contract basis

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