Industry Solutions Technology Consultant – Safety & Risk SME | Enablon

Join our Enablon team as an Industry Solutions Technology Consultant – Safety & Risk SME and bring deep safety management expertise to the development of innovative enterprise software solutions.

In this role, you will work as an embedded member of a cross-functional product team, partnering closely with Product Management, Engineering, and customers to ensure solutions reflect real-world safety management practices, risk-based decision making, and organizational learning principles. Your expertise will help shape product capabilities, validate customer needs, and translate complex safety challenges into scalable software solutions.

• Hybrid (8 days/month).
• NLD - Alphen Aan Den Rijn
• POL - Gdansk
• FRA - Bois-Colombes, 17 Avenue de l'Europe
• BEL - Mechelen
• DEU-Hamburg-Remote
• Full time.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering teams throughout discovery, design, development, validation, and release activities.
• Participate in customer workshops, interviews, and design-partner engagements to understand how organizations identify, investigate, and learn from safety events and operational risks.
• Define and validate safety-domain models, evidence requirements, decision frameworks, and business rules.
• Provide subject matter expertise across safety management, incident management, process safety, risk management, controls, and organizational learning disciplines.
• Evaluate and challenge proposed product capabilities to ensure safety validity, practical applicability, and industry relevance.
• Support the creation of requirements, specifications, process models, and domain documentation.
• Contribute to the development of industry best practices, methodologies, and knowledge assets.
• Help identify emerging industry trends, regulatory expectations, and evolving safety management practices.
• Validate customer use cases and business outcomes through ongoing collaboration with product and customer teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Product and Engineering teams on safety, risk, and learning-related topics.

Skills & Experience

Industry Expertise

• Deep experience in high-hazard or safety-critical industries such as Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Utilities, Mining, Energy, Manufacturing, Transportation, Construction, or similar sectors.
• Strong credibility gained through direct involvement in safety, risk, or process safety leadership roles.
• Experience leading or supporting enterprise safety improvement initiatives, risk reduction programs, or Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention efforts.

Domain Knowledge

• Strong understanding of Safety Management Systems and risk-based safety programs.
• Experience with incident and near-miss reporting, investigations, corrective actions, and lessons learned processes.
• Knowledge of Process Safety Management (PSM) principles and critical risk controls.
• Understanding of how incidents, hazards, controls, barriers, and risk signals influence operational and safety decisions.
• Familiarity with integrated management systems and related operational risk disciplines.
• Experience using safety data to drive prevention, learning, and continuous improvement outcomes.

Professional Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to connect incidents, impacts, controls, corrective actions, and risk insights into meaningful business outcomes.
• Skilled at communicating with frontline personnel, operational leaders, safety professionals, and executives.
• Able to challenge assumptions constructively and influence decision-making through evidence-based reasoning.
• Capable of translating complex safety concepts into structured business requirements and product capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and evolving environments.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work as a peer partner within cross-functional teams.

Working Model

• Full-time role embedded within a product development team.
• Active participation in product discovery, design, validation, and development activities.
• Daily collaboration with Product Management and Engineering rather than operating as a periodic reviewer or consultant.
• Regular participation in customer engagements, design reviews, and validation activities.
• Shared accountability for ensuring solutions align with safety principles, operational realities, customer needs, and business outcomes.
• Constructive challenge and evidence-based decision-making are encouraged as part of normal team operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in safety, process safety, risk management, operational excellence, or related disciplines.
• Experience implementing or using enterprise software supporting incident management, safety management, process safety, risk management, or operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge industry expertise with technology and product development teams.

What do we offer?

Next to a compensation and benefits package in line with the market, we also offer the following:

• a flexible, hybrid work setup;
• laptop and mobile phone;
• opportunities to travel occasionally;
• an engaged, diverse, and quality driven team;
• a culture that celebrates diversity and values talent.

Wolters Kluwer invests continuously in the growth and competencies of its employees by giving them many opportunities to develop.

About Wolters Kluwer and Enablon

Join us at Wolters Kluwer and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day through our deep domain expertise.

Enablon is the name of our software package for EHS, Risk and Compliance Management. We deliver the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise EHS platform, combining advanced technology, expert content, and professional services to help large and complex organizations manage risk, ensure compliance, and drive continuous operational improvement.

As part of the Enablon team, you will work with an industry-leading product alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about delivering exceptional value to our clients.

Our partners are oftentimes multinational companies all over the world that have to deal with health and safety risks.