Consultant

Department: Consulting, Infrastructure Domain

Reports to: Senior Manager

Location: Laguna Niguel or Sacramento, CA (In-person)

Tasks & Responsibilities: 

• As a member of our Consulting team, you will coordinate with clients on specific project components, discuss business strategies, and provide your expertise to improve financial or operational performance.   
• Mentor Analysts and play a crucial role in driving projects forward.  
• Engage in consulting projects and collaborate with cross-functional teams.   
• Assist our clients to solve their operational, financial, and strategic challenges and improve their business performance.   
• Take responsibility for your own project modules.  
• Consult and present project results to senior management.  
• Leverage the technical knowledge and expertise of Deutsche Bahn in consulting projects.  
• Support the development of client relationships and identify opportunities for future engagements.  
• Develop asset management, maintenance, and infrastructure strategies that improve long-term performance, reliability, and lifecycle value for transportation agencies. 
• Translate technical, operational, financial, and organizational challenges into practical implementation roadmaps and decision-making frameworks. 
• Lead complex analyses that support investment planning, maintenance optimization, organizational transformation, and state-of-good-repair initiatives. 
• Facilitate alignment across executives, operations teams, maintainers, infrastructure owners, and delivery partners to build consensus on strategic priorities and implementation approaches. 
• Advise clients on maintenance operating models, governance structures, performance management frameworks, and asset lifecycle management best practices. 
• Drive business development and practice growth through strategic planning, market assessment, solution proposition, and proposal development within the transportation and infrastructure sectors. 

Requirements: 

• One or more years of experience in consulting and familiarity with the consulting approach.  
• MBA, bachelor’s, or master’s degree in any discipline, having demonstrated academic excellence and the capacity to passionately engage with and excel in specific industries or topics.  
• Outstanding analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills and an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset; ability to work independently; aptitude to quickly grasp new concepts and effectively produce results.   
• Passion for tackling complex challenges in mobility and railway transportation sector.  
• Strong written and verbal presentation and communication skills. 
• Experience in using MS-Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) for performing analyses and developing quantitative models.   
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with strong interpersonal skills.  

 Working Conditions and Travel:  

Minimal overnight travel by land and air. 

Physical Requirements, with or without a reasonable accommodation: 

• Ability to work at a computer workstation for periods up to 4 hours at a time 
• Ability to speak on the telephone for a total of up to 3 hours per day 
• Ability to sit for up to 3 hours without breaks at meetings 
• Ability to walk and stand for up to 4 hours without breaks at program site visits and meetings