Supervisor Employee Relations at Gold Fields Limited

About the job

South Deep is recruiting!

This is an opportunity to bring your expertise to a warm family of professionals, working together to become a beacon of pride for our people, communities, stakeholders and shareholders. 

POSITION: Supervisor Employee Relations

JOB GRADING: C-Upper

DEPARTMENT: Human Resources

SITE: South Deep Gold Mine

Minimum Requirements:

• Be in possession of a Grade 12/N3 Qualification or Equivalent.

• Be in possession of an appropriate formal Legal Qualification with a strong IR knowledge/experience.

• Admitted attorney.

• Have a minimum of 5 years appropriate Legal/IR/ER experience.

• Be declared medically fit for the position and environment, as determined by a risk-based medical examination at the Gold Fields Occupational Health Centre and pass a Heat Tolerance Screening test, and such other tests as may be required to assess the applicant’s suitability for employment.

Key Competencies:

• Have sound Interpersonal relations and good communication skills.

• Have sound knowledge and experience in an IR/ER role within and Organized Labour environment.

• Knowledge of human resources functions and best practice.

• Exposure to the CCMA processes and a successful track record of CCMA cases.

• Proven time management and effectively meeting deadlines abilities.

• Must be an articulate & persuasive communicator.

• Excellent writing, research and communication skills.

• Ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization.

• Advanced Computer Literacy and advanced proficiency in MS Office / Excel.

• Track record of advising line managers.

• Experience of working with different cultures / geographies.

• Demonstrated experience in IR/ER in a mining / manufacturing / construction environment.

• Strong presentation and report development skills.

• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple deliverables.

• Be customer service focused.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Professional advice, guidance, and coaching to HR and Line Managers on employee relations related issues & processes.

• Interpretation of company policies and procedures.

• Conduct investigations and identify solutions to complex ER issues and facilitate the resolution of conflict through formal and informal grievances process.

• Represent company at CCMA cases.

• Risk Management and Compliance.

• Ensure compliance to ER processes and relevant Labour legislation.

• To develop sound employee and management relationships (Labour relations).

• Build constructive relationships between employees and employer. Inform and advise the business as required in terms of trends.

• Monitoring performance indicators, such as absenteeism levels, grievances levels, disciplinary processes, employee wellbeing matters.

• Tracking, reporting and analyzing ER issues/trends to inform an approach in our ER strategy and processes.

• Providing independent support and influence to managers and employees in helping to resolve disciplinary and other employee grievances.

• Providing accurate and timely data analysis on allocated projects or regular reports that support the decision making process.

• Providing people leadership within the department by managing workload, assigning tasks and reviewing / recognizing outputs of team members.

• Promoting cross-functional working relationships, incorporating a true “team spirit” with mutual support to meet the Mine's objectives.