Consultant – Part-time

Role Overview

• Delivering workshops and presentations to groups of various size
• Conducting one-on-one or small group field coaching with clients
• 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
• 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
• Communicate routinely and effectively to the client leadership team
• Create excellent deliverables internally so peers and project leaders can efficiently do their part.
• Meet deadlines
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 8+ years of experience in organizational change, or operations with safety responsibility, or in an industrial consulting role, or in a safety role
• CSP or equivalent, LEAN Green/Black Belt preferred
• 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

Benefits

• Compensation: This position allows for hourly professional fees according to confirmed project work; with fees ranging from $70/hour CAD to $180/hour CAD depending on the type of work delivered.