HR Generalist - Uitenhage at Faurecia

Main purpose of the role

The HR Generalist is responsible to develop advice on and implement policies relating to the effective use of personnel within an organisation. The role of the Human Resources Generalist is to support the HR Manager in the day-to-day HR management, in accordance with the Group’s human resources policies and procedures.

Essential responsibilities and duties

As a HR Generalist, your main responsibilities are as follow:

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT:

• Follow and manage the organisation training plan process
• Liaise with managers in identifying an assess training and development needs for their respective department.
• Ensure that there is a training needs analysis for each department within the organisation
• Organise, monitor and evaluate training programs to enhance training efficiency
• Liaise with external training providers and ensure that the service of training provided meets organisation and individual needs and that the providers are registered with
• Anticipate and assess potential learning needs
• Propose adequate training in order to facilitate internal mobility
• Liaise with Faurecia University for possible trainings as per calendar and facilitate the training registration
• Monitor or track the training progress made and send monthly reminders to managers when training is due as planned
• Keep training expenses within budget
• Provide training information and documents to external consultant to submit Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report as per legislation, (Siyaya has taken this role for all Faurecia South Africa)

EMPLOYEE RELATIONS:

• Advise Managers and Supervisor on Labour Relations issues
• Ensure compliance with legislation and code of conduct
• Manage employee discipline, discharge and grievances
• Conduct employee misconduct internal investigations
• Draft charges on employees alleged misconduct
• Coordinate training for  Managers and Supervisors on Labour Relations issues
• Manage company’s Labour policies, procedures and forms with assistance of the HR Manager or external Labour Consultant
• Coordinate union and management meetings (Secretariat role)

FES

• Supervisor and Gap Leader development guide
• Operator individual reviews
• Task transfer list and validation

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY:

• Manage EE committee and taking of minutes
• Submitting EE reports to the DOL
• Participate in the EE planning

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Ensure that employee’s objectives are set on a yearly basis (January each year)
• Ensure that quarterly performance appraisals or reviews are done (online or manually)
• Coordinate and facilitate communication to all staff on performance issues
• Providing counselling, guidance and training to management and employees on performance appraisal system or tool initiatives

CHANGE MANAGEMENT & HR PROJECT CHAMPION

• Support  the HR Manager with change management initiatives
• Develop, maintain and apply change management processes and tools required to support the adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative
• Support the design, development, delivery and management of change communications across the organization
• Provide consulting and coaching to project teams regarding change management processes, tools and activities
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with business line staff and change owners
• Lead by example through demonstration of high performance in the areas of customer service, collaboration, team work, reliability, productivity, and execution
• Build up a common set of practices, principles and templates for managing projects
• Responsible for the planning, maintaining, management and reporting of the programme to ensure projects are completed successfully

Qualifications and position requirements

• Education: Diploma/ B-Tech/ Bachelor’s degree with specialisation in Human Resources field from an accredited institution.

Knowledge and experience :

• Minimum of 3years experience in Human Resource Administration/ as an HR generalist.
• At least 2-3 years in the HR function with experience in training and development
• Proven experience of HRIS ideally SAP
• Proven experience in MS Office utilization
• Independent team player and demonstrating good initiative
• Proven analytical ability
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with customers
• Good interpersonal skills
• Languages: English

As an employee, you are required to:

• Continually reduce the consumption of natural resources to preserve the world for generations to come.
• Continually reduce the generation of waste and ensure safe disposal of hazardous waste.
• Contribute towards actions to measures to prevents pollution.
• Comply with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Comply with operational HSE requirements as per the HSE system.