Senior Human Resources Manager

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement HR strategies, policies, procedures, and workforce plans.
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, performance management, training, employee retention, and offboarding.
• Advise management and employees on employment conditions, workplace policies, and labour relations.
• Manage disciplinary procedures, including investigations, notices, hearings, sanctions, appeals, and recordkeeping.
• Ensure disciplinary action is procedurally and substantively fair.
• Manage employee grievances, incapacity processes, absenteeism, poor performance, and workplace conflict.
• Prepare for and manage CCMA conciliations and arbitrations, including evidence bundles, witnesses, submissions, and case strategies.
• Liaise with labour attorneys, consultants, trade unions, employee representatives, and relevant authorities.
• Manage operational-requirements and retrenchment processes under Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act.
• Establish and maintain employee committees or other recognised employee-representation structures.
• Coordinate committee elections, terms of reference, meetings, minutes, consultation, and communication.
• Maintain constructive relationships with employees, unions, management, and employee representatives.
• Support the preparation, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the companys Social and Labour Plan (SLP).
• Coordinate SLP commitments relating to human-resource development, employment equity, local economic development, housing, living conditions, and mine-community development.
• Manage skills-development initiatives and relationships with the relevant SETA, including grant applications, Workplace Skills Plans and Annual Training Reports.
• Oversee learnerships, internships, apprenticeships, bursaries, and employee-development programmes.
• Monitor compliance with the Mining Charter and support required transformation reporting.
• Develop and track employment-equity, localisation, skills-development, procurement, and management-representation targets.
• Support the organisations B-BBEE strategy, verification process, evidence collection, and scorecard improvement initiatives.
• Maintain accurate HR, training, transformation, and compliance records.
• Prepare reports for management, regulators, auditors, SETAs, verification agencies, and other stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelors degree or diploma in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, Labour Relations, Business Management, or a related field.
• Postgraduate HR or labour-law qualification is advantageous.
• At least 10 years HR generalist or HR management experience.
• Relevant experience within the mining sector is strongly preferred.
• Practical experience handling disciplinary hearings and CCMA matters.
• Experience managing Section 189 consultation and retrenchment processes.
• Experience establishing or managing employee committees or representative forums.
• Practical experience with SLP implementation and reporting.
• Experience with SETA submissions, Workplace Skills Plans, Annual Training Reports, and discretionary or mandatory grants.
• Working experience with Mining Charter and B-BBEE compliance, reporting, audits, or verification.

Required knowledge
The successful candidate must demonstrate a sound working knowledge of:

• Disciplinary codes and procedures, including investigation, evidence management, hearings, sanctions, and appeals.
• The Labour Relations Act and CCMA rules and procedures.
• Section 189 and, where applicable, Section 189A retrenchment requirements.
• The Basic Conditions of Employment Act.
• The Employment Equity Act.
• The Skills Development Act and Skills Development Levies Act.
• SETA processes and reporting requirements.
• Social and Labour Plans and relevant mining regulatory requirements.
• The Mining Charter and transformation requirements.
• B-BBEE legislation, Codes of Good Practice, scorecard elements, evidence requirements, and verification processes.
• Applicable occupation

Employment Details
Employment Type:
Permanent Employment
Industry:
Mining
Work space preference:
Work Onsite
Ideal work province:
Gauteng
Ideal work city:
Sandton
Salary bracket:
R 0 - 130000
Drivers License:
CODE B (Car)
Own car needed:
No