Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DEKRA North America is a global provider of comprehensive services and solutions aimed at improving safety, security, and sustainability outcomes. They are seeking a part-time Consultant to help drive safety performance improvement through organizational change initiatives, acting as a trusted advisor to clients and facilitating effective governance in safety.
Responsibilities
- Delivering workshops and presentations to groups of various size
- Conducting one-on-one or small group field coaching with clients
- With advancement to Project Lead Consultant, perform client-related project management working on smaller to gradually larger and more complex projects
- Understand the client’s objectives and needs and adapt the centerline model for the client engagement giving the greatest probability of success
- Understand the role of Governance in Safety
- Ability to establish effective safety governance that aligns with the client organizational structure and functioning
- Guide and facilitate measurable governance
- Delivering DEKRA’s suite of solutions with mastery of the concepts combined with industry subject matter expertise
- Utilize centerline positions and materials that illustrate DEKRA’s Point of View on leadership, safety, and project execution
- Coach client leaders from the frontlines to senior leaders and become their trusted advisor
- Track progress in meeting client objectives and adjust when necessary
- Develop a communication structure to reliably remain up to date on the client’s situation including safety performance, successes, business challenges, industry trends, etc
- Communicate routinely and effectively to the client leadership team
- Practice honesty: be truthful with the client, in a manner that preserves the relationship, even when it’s hard to do so
- Create excellent deliverables internally so peers and project leaders can efficiently do their part
- Meet deadlines
- When leading others on client projects: Enable and manage the success of the project team Assure all solutions are integrated and aligned toward meeting client objectives Communicate routinely and effectively to delivery team, and the overall project team Assure the project team delivers to the client’s adaptation of the centerline, across all parts of the client organization Deliver performance-related feedback to individual consultants, including areas for improvement and recognition for positive contributions Escalate project related consultant success stories and guidance feedback to appropriate management levels
- Contribute to a safe and healthy work environment by actively participating, taking responsibility, and following established procedures and policies
- Maintain a complete and accurate project plan for the life of the project including consultant scheduling to meet delivery needs
- Meet goals of personally delivering billable hours as assigned by your manager in addition to working on assigned internal projects
- Manage projects toward stated realization rate, ensuring effective utilization of consultants
- Achieve monthly forecast accuracy
- Expand the scope of client relationships and maintain long term engagements by identifying additional areas of opportunity and surface to the Project/Program Manager
- Maintain a professional brand of credibility internally at DEKRA and externally within the marketplace
- Gain acceptance by existing clients to be references for future projects
Skills
- Language requirements: both English and bi-lingual English/Spanish speaking candidates needed!
- Education: Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in organizational change, or operations with safety responsibility, or in an industrial consulting role, or in a safety role
- Certifications/Licenses: CSP or equivalent
- Presence in front of Leaders – first line though senior manager
- Demonstrated cognitive flexibility
- Ability to successfully navigate client ambiguity
- Ability to develop deep knowledge of DEKRA solutions
- Ability to interpret the impact of non-safety processes on safety and culture
- Ability to develop a strategic plan which supports the scope of work and overall safety excellence
- Ability to manage client excellence and DEKRA business
- Ability to create a project team culture that supports and aligns with business values
- Fluency with various Governance structures and how they 'fit' and function in various situations
- Fluency with leading and lagging metrics and the ability to proposes specific metrics for the client
- Fluency in applying effective change management
- Fluency in Safety Management System best practices and ability to propose enhancements to close gaps
- Ability to lead a matrixed team
- Ability to develop others
- Must be able to work in a variety of client locations, environments, and conditions
- Must be able to accommodate working various shifts as client activities are scheduled
- Must be able to withstand the rigors of extensive travel
- May require difficult travel and long periods of driving
- Ability to move and conduct work with full range of motion
- Ability to lift 25-50lbs (luggage)
- Extended periods of computer-based work
- Extended periods of standing
- Domestic and/or potential for international travel required, estimated up to 75%
- LEAN Green/Black Belt preferred
Benefits
- Work Model: Remote
- Part-time, Flexible
- Reports to: VP Consulting Leader - As a matrixed organization our Consultants report to an Executive Lead Consultant for instruction and feedback on a given project.
- DEKRA North America is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or accommodation while seeking employment, please call +1 (770) 971-3788. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis .
- DEKRA North America will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.
- DEKRA North America participates in the E-Verify program to confirm eligibility to work in the United States.
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