Freelance Safety Transformation Programme Manager

About dss+

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.

Why This Role

This role focuses on leading complex, multi-workstream transformation programmes, driving delivery across safety, operational risk, and organisational change initiatives.

You will play a critical leadership role in shaping programme direction, defining priorities, and mobilising client teams to deliver outcomes at pace.

Your Impact at dss+

You will lead and coordinate a large-scale transformation programme, ensuring alignment and progress across multiple workstreams while driving ownership within the client organisation.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead programme delivery across key workstreams, ensuring alignment, pace, and measurable outcomes
• Define clear priorities, actions, and expectations for client stakeholders, proactively driving delivery rather than waiting for instruction
• Establish robust programme governance, tracking progress, risks, and dependencies across all workstreams
• Provide clear and structured progress reporting to senior stakeholders, ensuring visibility and accountability
• Engage across client departments to mobilise resources, remove barriers, and drive execution

Core Workstreams

• Phase 2 and 3 transformation initiatives across safety and operational improvement
• Organisation-wide risk awareness training delivery, including optimisation of booking and scheduling processes
• Enhancements to reporting systems (e.g. Synergy) to support critical risk visibility and decision-making
• Internal communications to reinforce programme objectives and behavioural change
• Coaching and capability development for support staff and key stakeholders