Employee Relations Coordinator at Anglo American

Job Description:

This role is a Specialist role within the HR structure responsible for ensuring all aspects of employee relations support are compliant and is in line with Anglo American Platinum guidelines and practices.

In this role, you will need to initiate appropriate employee relations interventions such as training, trend analysis, and orientation to ensure legal compliance and effectiveness of processes.

Key responsibilities of this role are:

• Employment Relations (ER) Strategy - Manage processes involved in implementation of the employee relations strategy

• Employee Relations Advice – Manage a team of professionals involved in providing advice and support on employee relations matters

• Relationships - Managing the processes involved in supporting formal trade union relationships.

• Negotiations - Managing processes that implement bargaining council agreements and handling strikes in a mine environment

• Grievances and conflict - Manage processes to keep employees and managers advised of grievance handling procedures

• Disciplinary cases - Manage disciplinary processes to ensure a speedy resolution

• Dismissals and unfair labour practices - Manages the dismissals and ULP processes to ensure speedy resolution

• Restructuring - Ensures that agreements around restructuring are correctly recorded and implemented

This role is in the Human Resource Department at a Band 6 level reporting to the Senior HR Manager.

Qualifications:

• Matric

• NQF 7 Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in Human Resource management or Employee relations

Experience

• At least 3 years employee relations experience at an Officer level, and two years in the mining environment.

Additional Requirements:

• Computer literate for role including SAP HR.

• Competent in mine HR systems and related legislations 

• Communication skills

Additional information:

What we offer

When you join Anglo American you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package, but more than this, you’ll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programmes, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We are a large, successful multinational company – and we are still growing all the time.