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Operational Risk & Safety Coach

HainautOn siteHours negotiable<3months

This consulting firm partners with organizations in high-risk and asset-intensive industries to solve complex operational challenges across safety, operational excellence, and sustainability. With a heritage rooted in the industrial operations of a former parent company, the firm combines deep expertise, practical problem-solving, and digital innovation to deliver measurable and lasting impact for 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 delivery team, supporting an international client to drive meaningful and sustainable change across their Dutch operations.

What you will do. 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 the consulting firm's 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

Profile

You are an experienced operational risk and Health & Safety professional with a strong track record in coaching leadership teams within hazardous environments. You are either an established freelancer or available for contract-based assignments and able to deliver impact from day one.

  • Strong analytical thinking and a curious mindset
  • Ability to work effectively in diverse, international environments
  • Comfortable engaging with stakeholders and solving complex problems

What they ask

  • 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

Languages.

  • Fluency in Dutch (mandatory requirement)
  • Fluency in English (mandatory requirement)

Practical Aspects.

  • Willingness to work on client sites across the Netherlands

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