Consultant - Part-time, Flexible

DEKRA North America, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DEKRA North America, Inc. seeks a Consultant to help save lives and reduce injuries by guiding safety performance improvements through client engagements. You will act as a trusted advisor, tailoring DEKRA's centerline solutions to meet client objectives and deliver results.

The role emphasizes coaching, leadership, and ensuring measurable governance across engagements. Responsibilities include delivering workshops, coaching clients, and progressively taking on larger, more complex projects as a

Responsibilities

• Delivering workshops and presentations to groups of various size.
• Conducting one-on-one or small group field coaching with clients.
• Advancing to Project Lead Consultant and performing client-related project management on progressively larger projects.
• Developing governance-driven safety solutions and aligning them with client organizational structure.

Job description

In compliance with applicable pay transparency requirements, the application window for this position is expected to close on October 9, 2026, subject to change based on business need.

A Day in the Life and the Impact You’ll Make:

You will help save lives, reduce serious injuries, and improve the culture of DEKRA's clients through organizational change initiatives that drive safety performance improvement through client engagements. Our Consultant positions are critical for the overall success of any client engagement, and are the lynch pin between the front line through the organization to the c-suite.

The overall objective of our Consultants is to utilize organizational change knowledge to deliver the results that our clients are seeking, become a trusted advisor, and expand the scope and breadth of existing client engagements. When leading projects, they are accountable for assuring that their team can effectively delivery our primary Consulting solutions with excellence by coaching and mentoring with sincere, candid feedback.

To be successful in this position our Consultants will need a deep understanding of our centerline solutions, be able to adapt these solutions to meet client objectives and understand how the offering can be integrated into the client organization.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Three key performance areas summarize the scope of this position:

Client Facing Responsibilities

• 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.

Team Responsibilities

• Create excellent deliverables internally so