Project Consultant (remote with 100% travel) at USC Consulting Group

USC Consulting Group is a forward-moving consulting firm with a reputation of excellence since 1968, based in Tampa, Florida that partners with clients to provide greater value and competitiveness within their businesses. We provide multiple skills and business techniques such as: systems solutions, process improvement, quality function deployment, continuous flow manufacturing and integrated supply chain management.

A Project Consultant with our firm will work on a team and be assigned to a project to work at one of our client locations (you will travel from your home base anywhere in the U.S. or Canada) and benefit from the extensive experience of the members. You will learn the needed skill sets and business techniques required to be successful in our business as a business architect and change practitioner that brings the right solutions to each project. The specific position responsibilities are within the scope of project management which relates to workflow analysis, planning, change process and systems implementation. We work closely with our clients in a partnership to achieve measurable results in process flow, productivity improvement as well as performance management.

FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES: 

•  Executing the client’s goals and objectives
•  Changing behaviors through daily side by side coaching
•  Removing barriers and creating support from middle and senior management
•  Confronting issues and providing appropriate feedback
•  Giving frontline supervisors and their employees a voice
•  Identifying root cause issues and needed corrective actions.
•  Unlocking ideas for improvement
•  Helping frontline supervisors and managers become proactive vs. reactive.
•  Increasing team member involvement at all levels of the organization
•  Changing cultures for sustainable results
•  Implementing a proven management operating system
•  Understanding and presenting the appropriate metrics and data

TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE:

Advanced computer skills; including MS Office Suite, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Web conferencing, and CRM.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Knowledge of business process practices in a work environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Excellent interpersonal skills; able to work with all levels of an enterprise
• Performance driven and self-motivated.
• Adaptable to changing environments.
• Professional in appearance and conduct

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 2 to 5 years in the business arena
• An undergraduate business-related degree preferred (advanced degree is a plus)
• Ability to travel a minimum of 5 nights a week.
• Willing to work international assignments.
• Have a valid driver’s license, and a Canadian or US Passport
• Fluency in multiple languages is an asset.

BENEFITS:

The company provides excellent benefits and covers most of the cost for employees. Employees contribute a small percentage to medical and vision plans but the company fully covers the cost of a telemedicine plan, dental, life insurance, STD and LTD.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to present, observe, and listen in multiple environments (some of them loud/high volume). The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch as well as standing/walking for multiple hours a day.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Long periods may be spent looking at a computer screen.

Must be able to spend extended periods of time in-flight and travel long distances.

We are a Drug-Free Workplace

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as instructed to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.