Job Summary
Company in Pretoria is looking for a Experienced HR and IR Director with at least 10 years experience in a HR/HC management capacity. The ideal candidate must be hands-on, flexible and used to work in a ever changing environment. Candidates from a Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics or Transport industry background will be ideal.
Strategic Management & Reporting
- Coordinate the setting of HC strategy and alignment with business plans.
- Lead and execute long and short term department objectives.
- Manage associated risk register with the internal audit team and committee.
- Liaison with clients and key stakeholders.
- Prepare reports for EXCO and board-level.
- Setting of HC and Payroll budgets annually.
- Manage employee mobility across all business units.
- Manage company communication structures.
Recruitment, Selection and On-boarding
- Manage human capital planning in line with budget provisions and business strategy.
- Manage the recruitment process according to company policy.
- Responsible for signing-off of all new placements and reappointments.
- Manage all job descriptions within the company and ensuring role definitions are understood.
- Manage an on-boarding strategy and process.
- Oversee all related requirement for new starters – i.e. Office space, IT equipment, parking etc.
- Ensure efficient and accurate documentation are kept with regards to the recruitment and selection process.
Payroll
- Manage the company remuneration strategies and payment structures.
- Manage the executive payroll and administration.
- Ensure compliance with all legal and tax provisions.
- Ensure efficient and accurate documentation practices.
- Ensuring all EE information is correct and up to date.
- Manage the pension fund from a strategic point of view.
- Manage the company leave provision.
- Manage overtime and work-hours of workforce.
Industrial Relations
- Manage sound labour relations practices.
- Manage key consultants and stakeholders.
- Manage union activity and relationships.
- Ensure compliance with the bargaining council collective agreement.
- Ensure CCMA cases are dealt with effectively and completely.
- Coordinate record taking of all disciplinary actions taken.
- Assist with disciplinary hearing and other disciplinary issues as required.
- Provide management training and coaching on all industrial relations aspects.
- Ensure consistent application of disciplinary code and procedures.
Training and Development
- Ensure compliance documents are completed annually – WSP, EE reports.
- Manage Training and the SETA relationship.
- Manage the training strategy of all new employees.
- Manage the refresher and evaluation strategy for employees
- Manage a skills development plan for the company.
- Manage a Leadership Development program to empower company management.
- Manage training and development policies and procedures.
Systems, Compliance and General Administration
- Ensure all policies and procedures are current and applicable across all business units.
- Ensure all policies and procedures are complied with and fully operational at all times.
- Manage the HRM system implementation process.
- Compiles or assists with acquisition of complex data reports requested by senior executives and HC staff.
- Serves as lead representative and liaison between HC, Information Services, external, and other stakeholders for HC database design and implementation projects.
- Oversees the procurement of appropriate hardware and software to ensure that the organization has high quality, efficient systems.
- Ensure each employee has a signed contract Job Description and related documents on file.
- Manage the rights on user-management for all staff.
- Manage the exit interview process and documentation.
- Manage Health and Safety compliance.
- Manage the Injury-on-duty processes and compliance with the Workplace Compensation Commissioner.
- Manage all payroll related compliances in all countries of operation.
Performance Management
- Set a performance evaluation strategy and manage the implementation.
- Manage the record keeping of performance evaluations.
- Conduct assessment from performance evaluations received back.
- Manage the company productivity levels.
Organisational Design and Employee Wellbeing
- Ensure company structures are effective, productive and cost efficient.
- Manage employee well-being initiatives.
- Manage praises and recognition strategies.
- Manage the uniform process according to company policy.
- Ensure effective communication strategies across all business functions.
Qualifications
Post graduate qualification in HR and IR
Experience:
- 10+ years’ work experience in an HR/HC management capacity.
- Strong computer skills
- Excellent system knowledge and implementation skills
- Strong project management skills.
- Prior experience with implementing and working with an HR Management system
- Facilitates migration to a unified HRM system.
- Excellent knowledge and experience in training & development of staff (specific knowledge pertaining to the training needs analysis of technical staff) as well as compliance.
- Data driven (reports/compliance/systems).
- Excellent knowledge of payroll systems/compliance & input/output of data.
- Strong IR knowledge and experience.
- Strong reporting skills.
- Strong performance management skills.
- Candidate must be flexible, working in an ever-changing work environment.
- Very hands-on human capital team
- Knowledge / Abilities:
• Understand the company operating models in all countries of operations.
• Must have experience from an HC and industrial relations environment.
• Must be able to motivate and lead people.
• Assist fellow colleagues in the daily running of HC related tasks.
• Be focused on providing work of an extremely high quality.
• Show ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines.
• Familiarity with human capital policies and procedures to ensure the HRIS meets organizational needs and goals.
• Be able to enforce discipline.
• Ability to keep information confidential.
• Be able to play a role on the company EXCO
