People Senior Specialist: Industrial Relations at Smollan

Our organisation is looking for a People Senior Specialist: Industrial Relations to ensure fair and equitable industrial relations practices and procedures in accordance with the relevant labour legislation.

As a People Senior Specialist: Industrial Relations, you will be responsive for but not limited to:

Management of Disciplinary Processes

• Develop and maintain standardised and simple disciplinary processes that are aligned to all legislation.
• Review and update disciplinary policies, processes and guidelines based on evolving labour law.
• Assist in handling of CCMA disputes and/or any relevant dispute resolution forum disputes.
• Upskill line management and HR teams on disciplinary processes and best practice

Incapacity Management

• Develop and maintain standardised and simple incapacity processes that are aligned to all legislation.
• Review and update incapacity policies, processes and guidelines based on evolving labour law best practice.

Management of Arbitrations and Department of Labour

• Represent Smollan at CCMA proceedings.
• Provide guidance and advice to HR representatives and line management on CCMA proceedings.
• Monitor settlement trends and advise on acceptable approaches.
• Ensure that CCMA awards are actioned in a timeous manner.
• Facilitate correspondence with CCMA with regards to:
• Condonation objections
• Rescission applications/objections
• Objections for conciliation or arbitration
• Filing of closing arguments
• Requests for telephonic conciliations
• Ad hoc facilitations

IR Upskilling

• Ensure that IR training material is up to date.
• Initiate the scheduling of IR refresher training.
• Facilitate IR training and up-skilling at Group level.

Stakeholder Management

• Provide advice and support regarding any IR matters.
• Ensure appropriate up-skilling of HR and line management on all IR related matters (e.g.
• Build and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders across Smollan (e.g., Business Units, HR representatives and Operations Managers)

Teamwork And Self-Management

• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures.
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demand.

REQUIREMENTS

What are we looking for? 

To qualify for this role, you should have 

• Diploma or Degree/NQF level 7
• 6- 8 years’ experience in industrial relations
• Relationship building
• South African labour legislation knowledge
• Report writing skills.
• Labour law and industrial relations knowledge
• Communication skills (verbal & written)