Consultant – Part-time, Flexible

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Part-time Consultant improving industrial clients’ safety performance through organizational change, governance, and coaching. DEKRA provides global testing, inspection, certification, and safety consulting services.

Responsibilities:

  • Help save lives, reduce serious injuries, and improve DEKRA clients’ safety culture through organizational change initiatives
  • Deliver workshops and presentations to groups of varying sizes
  • Conduct one-on-one and small-group field coaching with clients
  • Progress to project management responsibilities on increasingly complex client projects
  • Understand client objectives and adapt DEKRA’s centerline model for successful engagements
  • Establish and facilitate effective safety governance aligned with client organizational structures
  • Deliver DEKRA’s solutions using leadership, safety, and project-execution expertise
  • Coach client leaders from frontline employees to senior leaders and serve as a trusted advisor
  • Track progress against client objectives and adjust as needed
  • Maintain communication on client safety performance, business challenges, and industry trends
  • Communicate routinely with client leadership, delivery teams, and project teams
  • Create high-quality internal deliverables and meet deadlines
  • Enable and manage project-team success when leading client projects
  • Ensure solutions are integrated and aligned with client objectives
  • Provide performance-related feedback to consultants and escalate success stories and guidance
  • Maintain project plans and consultant scheduling
  • Deliver assigned billable hours and work on internal projects
  • Manage realization rates and consultant utilization
  • Achieve monthly forecast accuracy
  • Expand client relationships and identify additional opportunities
  • Maintain DEKRA’s professional brand and secure client references

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
  • 8+ years of experience in organizational change, operations with safety responsibility, industrial consulting, or a safety role
  • CSP or equivalent preferred
  • LEAN Green/Black Belt preferred
  • Presence in front of leaders from first line through senior manager
  • Demonstrated cognitive flexibility
  • Ability to navigate client ambiguity successfully
  • Ability to develop deep knowledge of DEKRA solutions
  • Ability to interpret the impact of non-safety processes on safety and culture
  • Ability to develop strategic plans supporting the scope of work and overall safety excellence
  • Ability to manage client excellence and DEKRA business
  • Ability to create a project team culture aligned with business values
  • Fluency with various governance structures
  • Fluency with leading and lagging metrics
  • Fluency in applying effective change management
  • Fluency in Safety Management System best practices
  • Ability to lead a matrixed team and develop others
  • Must work in varied client locations, environments, and conditions
  • Must accommodate various shifts as client activities are scheduled
  • Must withstand extensive travel, including difficult travel and long periods of driving
  • Ability to lift 25–50 lbs. of luggage
  • Ability to perform extended computer-based work and standing
  • Domestic and/or potential international travel required, estimated up to 75%
  • This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States

Benefits:

  • Flexible, part-time work arrangement
  • Remote work model
  • Growth path to Senior Consultant and Principal Consultant
  • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
  • Equal employment opportunity
  • Hourly professional fees based on confirmed project work