Senior HR Business Partner

**Senior HR Business Partner**

**About**

This well established and growing gas distribution company has offices in most provinces in South Africa. This is your chance to join a team of energized, passionate and dynamic people in a successful company with a company culture that focuses on service excellence and employee engagement.

**Purpose**

The Senior HR Business Partner will meet business and HR goals by ensuring the HR function delivers a service to management and employees. This includes recruitment, induction, training and development, employee relations, regulatory compliance and HR administration. You will work closely with senior management, serve as a partner to the business, and act as a change-agent in all value-adding initiatives. You will successfully manage and mitigate all risks from an IR perspective, through ensuring legislative compliance.

**Responsibilities**:
**Recruitment and Induction**
- Ensure vacancies are filled in the shortest amount of time with creation of correct job descriptions.
- Liaise with management on updating job specifications.
- Ensure that fair selection practices are implemented.
- Liaise with recruitment agencies where needed.
- Handle the induction of new employees including contract drafting and policy explanations.

**Psychometric Assessments**
- Identify the need for psychometric testing.
- Liaise with subcontractors to implement psychometric testing.
- Adhere to legislative requirements when using psychometric assessments.

**Job Descriptions and Performance Management**
- Conduct job analysis to determine staffing numbers, skills and needs to meet company objectives.
- Analyse the skills and qualities required for each job and develop/revise job descriptions.
- Link job descriptions to the performance management system and compensation and benefits
- Ensure performance management is conducted effectively by management and support management in understanding the process.
- Assist with performance evaluations.

**Training and Development**
- Identify skills gaps and arrange for training.
- Advise management on career development plans.
- Ensure that succession plans are implemented.

**Industrial Relations**
- Assist in all IR related matters.
- Handle disciplinary and grievance matters and recommend/implement appropriate disciplinary measures.
- Assist with the preparation and representation at CCMA as and when required.
- Handle retrenchments, medical boarding, sensitive conflict resolutions, performance improvement plans.
- Swiftly attend to all employee matters and practice a hands-on and proactive approach to dealing with employee matters.
- Offer professional advice to management regarding the most appropriate action to take for employee non-conformances and other performance challenges.
- Ensure the sanctions imposed on employees for misdemeanours are in line with the company’s Disciplinary Code of Conduct.
- Proactively attend to abuse of the sick leave and other absenteeism matters by extracting reports from the system.
- Analyse monthly staff movement to identify trends and concerns.
- Interpret and notify employees and management on Labour Legislation and related amendments.
- Conduct exit interviews and record findings in a report.
- Address areas of concerns identified during exit interviews with the relevant manager.

**Statutory Reporting and Policies**
- Communicate and handle Department of Labour inspections for all branches.
- Compile and submit Employment Equity plans and reports.
- Act as the Employment Equity Manager and prepare for and run EE Committee meetings.
- Prepare other submissions of WSP/ATR where required.
- Claim Mandatory and Discretionary grants from SETA for training.
- Develop and update policies and procedures in line with legislation.

**HR Administration**
- Complete all HR and recruitment administration.
- Handle all Compensation Commission and CHIETA SDL levies and matters.
- Provide information to the Payroll Administrator for new hires and terminations (provident fund, monthly submissions etc).
- Update and maintain the ESS system including keeping track of all leave, medical lay-offs etc.
- Submit reports to Management as required.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a full-function Senior HR BP role
- Tertiary qualification in Human Resource Management/Industrial and Organisational Psychology

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: R30 000,00 - R40 000,00 per month

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- HR Busines partner: 5 years (required)