The Opportunity

At KAEFER, our success is built on our values and culture, which create a supportive and inclusive environment where employees can thrive. We prioritise growth and development, with abundant opportunities for advancement and a commitment to promoting from within. Our wide range of job openings, including entry-level positions, allows for the first steps on the ladder to success. We provide ongoing training and development opportunities to support our employees throughout their careers.  
 
We are looking for a Behavioural Safety Trainer/Coach to join our team on a permanent basis. You’ll deliver behavioural safety training programmes to agreed quality standards and effectively coach our operational teams to improve safety behaviours. Your contribution to measurable improvements in safety culture and engagement will help us with our achievement of training and coaching objectives within agreed timescales and allow us to maintain our professional credibility and behavioural safety expertise. 

How You Will Make An Impact

• Deliver behavioural safety training programmes to employees, supervisors and operational managers ensuring training is engaging, interactive, and aligned with organisational safety objectives and our Essential Skills Behavioural Framework.
• Facilitate workshops, classroom sessions, virtual learning events, and practical workplace interventions, adapting programme content to suit different audiences and operational environments.
• Support implementation and sustainability of behavioural safety initiatives and provide individual and group coaching to leaders and frontline teams.
• Develop front-line hands-on operational leadership capability in safety conversations, observations, feedback, and intervention techniques by coaching managers to improve safety engagement, accountability, and visible leadership.
• Facilitate focus groups, workshops, and improvement sessions and support the development of action plans arising from culture assessments and workforce feedback.
• Promote a just culture that encourages reporting, learning, and proactive risk management.
• Build credible relationships with operational teams, management, and employee representatives and work collaboratively with HSE, HR, and operational leadership teams and influence and challenge behaviours constructively to drive positive change.
• Analyse behavioural observation data, feedback, and safety trends and produce reports outlining training outcomes, coaching activities, and improvement opportunities and recommendations for continuous improvement via monitoring and evaluating programme effectiveness using agreed KPIs
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Training qualification such as CIPD Level 3 Certificate in Learning & Development or equivalent, qualification or relevant experience within facilitation skills (essential).
• Experience delivering behavioural safety programmes in industrial, manufacturing, construction, engineering, logistics, utilities, or similar environments (essential).
• Proven experience facilitating workshops and training sessions with diverse audiences, ranging from trade workforce roles to operational management level (essential).
• Experience providing operations and middle management coaching (essential).
• Excellent presentation, communication, and facilitation skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access) (essential).
• Self-motivated and highly organised to manage your own time (essential).
• Accredited Coaching Qualification including understanding of performance coaching methodologies or equivalent experience (desirable).
• Behavioural Safety practitioner experience (desirable).
• Experience conducting safety culture assessments and supporting change management initiatives (desirable).
• Understanding of behavioural safety principles, human factors and a knowledge of safety management systems (desirable).

Why KAEFER UK & Ireland?

Our mission is clear: to be the most reliable and efficient provider of technical industrial services.

KAEFER UK & Ireland provides a large and growing range of industries with asset integrity services including access solutions, insulation, surface protection, HVAC fabrication, EC&I and more. We focus on improving energy efficiency and extending asset life cycles. We have twelve operating centres across the UK and Ireland, employing approximately 3,500 highly skilled and experienced people. Our people are our lifeforce and every day they deliver excellence to our customers.

KAEFER UK & Ireland is part of the KAEFER Group, a global €2.3 billion business with its headquarters in Bremen, Germany. KAEFER works on more than 5,500 job-sites internationally, with around 33,000 employees. With unrivalled experience and expertise, our teams provide trusted partnerships and tailored support to execute even the most challenging and complex projects for clients.

We take pride in being part of a global company, with common values and many diverse and individual voices. You can ‘count on us’ to make positive contributions in the communities where we live and work.

Our values:

• Reliability

• Ambition

• Team Spirit

• Respect