Senior People Partner

Strategic HR Business Partnership:

• Partner with executive and operational leaders to align people strategy with business objectives
• Provide strategic HR advice and guidance to management.
• Support organizational design, restructuring, workforce planning, and succession planning initiatives.
• Influence and drive people-related transformation and change management initiatives.
• Analyze workforce trends and HR metrics to support business decision-making.

Talent Management and Organizational Development:

• Lead talent acquisition strategies and workforce planning.
• Drive succession planning and leadership development programs.
• Facilitate talent reviews and identify critical talent pipelines.
• Implement employee development and retention strategies.
• Support performance management processes and capability development initiatives.

Recruitment:

• Support with the recruitment process on an adhoc basis

Employee Relations and Labour Relations:

• Provide specialist guidance on employee and labour relations matters.
• Manage disciplinary, grievance, incapacity, poor performance, and misconduct processes.
• Represent the organisation at CCMA, Bargaining Council, and Labour Court matters where appropriate.
• Ensure compliance with labour legislation and company policies.

Employment Equity and Transformation:

• Drive Employment Equity strategy and implementation.
• Facilitate Employment Equity Committee meetings.
• Monitor progress against equity targets and transformation objectives.
• Prepare and submit Employment Equity reports to the Department of Employment and Labour.

Learning and Development:

• Identify organisational training needs through consultation with management.
• Develop annual learning and development strategies.
• Monitor training effectiveness and return on investment.
• Coordinate leadership, technical, compliance, and professional development initiatives.
• Manage training budgets effectively.

Skills Development Facilitation (SDF):

• Act as the appointed Skills Development Facilitator (SDF) for the organisation.
• Liaise with the relevant MERSETA and industry stakeholders.
• Coordinate Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) and Annual Training Report (ATR) submissions.
• Conduct annual training needs analysis across the business.
• Facilitate mandatory grants and discretionary grant applications.
• Ensure alignment of learning interventions with BBBEE and Skills Development requirements.
• Maintain accurate training records and learning management systems.
• Monitor training spend against Skills Development and BBBEE targets.
• Advise leadership on legislative changes affecting skills development.
• Coordinate learnerships, apprenticeships, internships, bursaries, and graduate development programmes.
• Prepare management reports relating to skills development and return on investment.
• Facilitate internal Skills Development Committee meetings where applicable.

HR Governance and Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with:
• Labour Relations Act (LRA)
• Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA)
• Employment Equity Act (EEA)
• Skills Development Act (SDA)
• Skills Development Levies Act (SDLA)
• Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA)
• Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)
• Develop, review and maintain HR policies and procedures.
• Manage HR risk and governance processes.

HR Reporting and Analytics:

• Produce HR dashboards and workforce analytics.
• Track turnover, absenteeism, talent metrics, employment equity, and training statistics.
• Provide recommendations based on HR data and trends.
• Support audit and compliance requirements relating to people management.

Educational Background:

• Bachelor's Degree (NQF Level 7) in:
• Human Resource Management Industrial Psychology
• Human Sciences
• Business Administration
• Industrial Relations or related field

Preferred:

• Postgraduate Qualification (Honours or Master's Degree) in Human Resource Management, Labour Relations, Organisational Psychology, or Business Management.
• Registered Skills Development Facilitator (SDF) training or certification.
• Employment Equity Management training.
• Labour Law qualification or certification.
• Professional Registration (Advantageous)
• Registered with SABPP (South African Board for People Practices) as:
• HR Professional
• Chartered HR Professional (CHRP)
• Master HR Professional (MHRP)
• Registered Skills Development Facilitator accreditation or recognised SDF training.

Professional Knowledge and Experiences:

• Minimum 8-10 years progressive Human Resources experience.
• Minimum 5 years in a senior HR Business Partner, HR Manager, or equivalent strategic HR role.
• Experience within an engineering, manufacturing, mining, energy, construction, infrastructure, consulting engineering, or technical corporate environment.
• Praxima/workday systems will be an advantage
• Demonstrated experience in:
• Employee Relations and Labour Relations
• Talent Management
• Organisational Development
• Employment Equity
• Change Management
• HR Strategy Implementation

Skills Development Experience:

• Minimum 3-5 years' experience functioning as a Skills Development Facilitator (SDF).
• Proven experience preparing and submitting:
• Workplace Skills Plans (WSP)
• Annual Training Reports (ATR)
• Discretionary Grant Applications
• Experience liaising with SETAs.
• Experience managing learnerships, apprenticeships, graduate programmes, internships, and bursaries.
• Experience supporting BBBEE Skills Development requirements

Knowledge Requirements:

• South African Labour Legislation.
• Employment Equity Act and reporting requirements.
• Skills Development Act and Skills Development Levies Act.
• SETA frameworks and grant processes.
• BBBEE Codes of Good Practice.
• Organisational development principles.
• Talent management frameworks.
• HR analytics and reporting.
• Change management methodologies.
• HR information systems and payroll integration.

Other Skills & Competencies:

• Leadership Competencies
• Strategic Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Change Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Influencing and Negotiation
• Decision Making
• Functional Competencies
• Labour Relations Expertise
• Organisational Development
• Learning and Development
• Talent Management
• Workforce Planning
• Skills Development Facilitation
• Employment Equity Management
• HR Analytics
• Behavioural Competencies
• Relationship Building
• Communication Skills
• Emotional Intelligence
• Problem Solving
• Conflict Resolution
• Resilience
• Integrity and Confidentiality
• Results Orientation

Travel Requirements:

• Must be willing to travel nationally and Internationally
• Valid passport is needed