Job Openings at Tharisa

Purpose of Role

• This is a specialist role within the Human Resources structure responsible for all the associated industrial/employee relations litigation practices and systems. It is responsible for the implementation, advising and updating of all the applicable industrial/employee relations practices within the Mine/Operation. 
• The role needs to initiate appropriate intervention functions such as training, upgrading, trend analysis, and orientation to ensure legal compliance and effectiveness of the processes.  This will assist with optimising the performance of the organisation and enhance the well-being of employee relations within the operation.
• The role has a specialist focus to lead the function towards industry best practices and to integrate the outputs of the function with the outputs of other functions in the organisation.  The time frame of work is 1 to 2 years, but some plans will be on a longer timeframe.

Role Context:

• Expert services with regards to the industrial relations discipline, including litigation, systems, practices, and processes.
• Provide expert advice to the organisation through the implementation of best practice systems related to the specific function.
• Maintain good employee relations.
• Develop and apply necessary administration systems and practices
• Ensure that systems and procedures are compliant with legislation.
• Ensure that systems and procedures are used to the fullest by stakeholders by regularly auditing usage and application.
• Advise management on the most appropriate course of action when decision relates to function.
• Provide advice and interpretation to any stakeholder in so far as the function utilisation and integration with other HR functions is concerned.
• Provide regular information to all stakeholders regarding use and trends specific to the function.
• Support projects for the implementation of applicable Safety, Regulations, The Act, Codes of practice and standards.
• Ensure that the required systems and procedures are aligned to the Units uniqueness
• Ensure that HR systems conform to Tharisa Minerals policies.
• Ensure employee records are accurate.
• Ensure that systems are well maintained.
• Support the training of non-HR Managers in HR systems and procedures.
• Ensure accuracy of HR systems.
• Prepare ad-hoc reports for management or other information customers.
• Ensure that HR systems used, and procedures are competitive, legal, integrated with other systems and understood by employees.
• Ensure that the appropriate systems and controls are in place to manage resources.
• Ensure the preservation of departmental records and statistics.
• Identifying employees suitable for further training related to the role.

Requirements

Qualifications:

Relevant Human Resources /Personnel Management Degree or similar

Job specific experience:

• At least five years Human Resources/Employee Relations experience, of which two years in the mining environment.
• Experience in other organisations.
• Competent in Human Resources and Employee Relations functional systems relevant to the role.
• Computer literate.
• Read and write in English. 
• Valid driving license code 08.

Inherent requirements;

Must be medically fit.

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Purpose of Role:

Coordination of engineering disciplines on various projects and studies. Ensuring the designs, engineering design basis for projects and studies, including requirements engineering, technical decisions, trade-offs, design risks and safety by design are covered. Manage the engineering execution basis for projects and studies, including setup, execution, controlling and close-out of systems, process workflows and engineering deliverables. Manage the interfaces between multidisciplinary engineering team, and between engineering and supply chain or construction management. Ensure adherence to legislation, policies, and procedures. Identify and drive technical and process improvement. Drive safety, engineering, quality, and cost drivers. Ensure Continuous Improvement through Operational Excellence. Adhere to all MHSA regulations, SHEQ regulations and Company policies and procedures.

Role Context:

• Organisation and planning of the project work into integrated, cross-functional.
• Assist in organizing the work into manageable activity clusters (phases)
• Determines an effective approach to completing the work.
• Managing and controlling execution phase of projects
• Assists in preparing the project plan
• Assist in creating project charter with the team, including the definition of completion criteria.
• Assists in determining prioritised activities in a project
• Assists in the effectively coordinating the activities of the team to meet project milestones.
• Proactively identifies changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external clients to reassess and amend the scope of work requirement, budget, and timeline.
• Assist with design reviews on project
• Ensuring all changes follow the Management of change (MOC) process.
• Assists in compiling a complete and accurate estimate of a project.
• Provides inputs when analysing the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
• Management of relevant stakeholders in the execution phase of project
• Assist in providing support in resolving issues related to client relations, governmental relations, project quality, and project risk and project safety.
• Assist in generating project reports

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• Technical 3-year degree/advanced diploma (NQF level 7) is essential.
• Qualification in Engineering essential
• Registration with the ECSA and SACPCMP will be advantageous.

Job specific experience:

• At least 8-10 years heavy industry construction management experience is essential.
• Experience in Environment authorization related projects is advantageous.
• Previous experience in working with Government agencies.
• Managing internal and external stakeholders is essential.
• Multi-disciplinary engineering experience is essential.
• Significant exposure to MHSA regulations, SHEQ regulations is essential.
• Mining industry experience is advantageous.
• Experience in the Management of Change (MOC).
• Coordination of design technical review meetings.

Inherent requirements;

Must be medically fit.