Job Description
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Industrial Relations & Risk
- Manage day-to-day IR matters and provide reports to Head Office on a monthly basis
- Manage disciplinary processes under the project and provide outcome report to Head Office for final approval
- Represent the company at CCMA conciliation/arbitration or Labour Court proceedings where required, or appoint and manage external representation
- Own the relationship with any trade unions or employee representative structures, including negotiation mandates
- Escalate material IR risk to Redheads Engineering senior management and, where relevant, to the client's contract steerer
Payroll, Benefits & Compliance Oversight
- Approve payroll and benefits processes prepared by the HR Assistant; accountable for their accuracy and legislative compliance (BCEA, COIDA, UIF), ensuring compliance with MIBCO
- Process payroll on the payroll management system on a monthly basis
- Provide the pay run to Head Office for payment on a monthly basis
- Provide all payroll documentation to Head Office for verification of payroll
- Responsible for the calculation and processing of all MIBCO-related benefits
Client Contract Workforce Governance
- Act as the primary HR-side point of contact for the client on workforce matters raised at the monthly KPI review meetings, including tenure-rate and training-certification performance
- Own the escalation response when workforce tenure or training-certification compliance triggers the contract's escalation clauses, and drive the corrective action plan back to de-escalation
- Sign off the monthly indirect workforce overview submitted to the client
- Approve the site's training matrix, certification framework, and workforce ramp-up/ramp-down plans
Workforce Planning & Organisational Development
- Own workforce planning across the contract, including scaling associated with contract volume changes and any multi-site or multi-shift considerations
- Set recruitment standards and approve role requirements for indirect and direct positions
- Drive tenure and retention strategy, including the structured step-up training approach required under the client contract
Training
- Maintain skills matrix of staff
- Ensure staff on site have required training
Mobilisation
- Ensure staff on site fulfil all requirements (client requirements and in-house requirements) to conduct work
- Follow full recruitment of workforce in line with the set-out vetting and assessment process
- Maintain a sufficiently sized pool of pre-qualified candidates that can be mobilised at short notice
- Mobilise staff at short notice when required
Job Specification
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Human Resource Management or Labour Relations
- MIBCO course will be advantageous
Experience
- At least 8 years' HR experience with at least 3 years at management level, ideally within automotive, manufacturing, or industrial/labour-intensive services (labour broker/TES exposure is advantageous given the indirect-workforce model)
- Extensive experience with MIBCO payroll management
- Demonstrated experience managing HR for a multi-shift workforce of 100+ employees, including budget accountability
- Experience managing a client-facing HR relationship within a service contract (SLA/KPI-driven environment) is strongly preferred
Knowledge
- Expert working knowledge of the LRA, BCEA, Employment Equity Act, COIDA, Skills Development Act and POPIA
- Experience capturing payroll on payroll systems such as (Simple Pay, Pay Space, Sage, etc.)
- Proven CCMA/Labour Court representation or case-management experience at a senior level
- MIBCO – Extensive knowledge with regard to the main agreement of MIBCO and RMI
- Confident, credible stakeholder manager – up to senior client and internal executive level
- People leadership – demonstrated ability to build and manage an HR team
Personal attributes
- Ambitious and commercially minded — driven to grow the company's market presence
- Professional, confident, and polished in client-facing and international environments
- Creative and innovative — brings fresh ideas to elevate the brand
- Takes initiative and demonstrates enterprise
- Collaborative and able to work across multiple business units and teams
Note: This position will be stationed in Rosslyn at the client's premises; own transport is advisable.
The above represents a non-exhaustive list of the duties and responsibilities for this role. The company reserves the right to vary or amend the duties and responsibilities of the position at any time according to the needs of the company’s needs.