Senior HR Strategy & Labour Relations Lead - Mining

Flink Recruitment; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Flink Recruitment in Sandton, Gauteng seeks an accomplished HR leader to drive HR strategy and workforce planning in a permanent, onsite role. The position focuses on recruitment, performance, training, retention, and disciplinary processes within the mining sector.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in HR generalist/management, strong CCMA and Section 189 experience, and a proven track record with SLP, SETA, and B-BBEE compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in HR, IR, or related field.
• Postgraduate HR or labour-law qualification advantageous.
• At least 10 years’ HR generalist or HR management experience.
• Mining sector experience strongly preferred.
• Practical experience handling disciplinary hearings and CCMA matters.
• Experience managing Section 189 consultations and retrenchment processes.
• Experience establishing or managing employee committees or representative forums.
• Practical experience with SLP implementation and reporting.
• Experience with SETA submissions, Workplace Skills Plans, Annual Training Reports, and grants.
• Experience with Mining Charter and B-BBEE compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement HR strategies, policies, procedures, and workforce plans.
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, performance management, training, employee retention, and offboarding.
• Advise management and employees on employment conditions, workplace policies, and labour relations.
• Manage disciplinary procedures, including investigations, notices, hearings, sanctions, appeals, and recordkeeping.
• Ensure disciplinary action is procedurally and substantively fair.
• Manage employee grievances, incapacity processes, absenteeism, poor performance, and workplace conflict.
• Prepare for CCMA conciliations and arbitrations, including evidence bundles, witnesses, submissions, and case strategies.
• Liaise with labour attorneys, consultants, trade unions, employee representatives, and relevant authorities.
• Manage operational-requirements and retrenchment processes under Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act.
• Establish and maintain employee committees or other recognised employee-representation structures.
• Coordinate committee elections, terms of reference, meetings, minutes, consultation, and communication.
• Maintain constructive relationships with employees, unions, management, and employee representatives.
• Support the preparation, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the company’s Social and Labour Plan (SLP).
• Coordinate SLP commitments relating to human-resource development, employment equity, local economic development, housing, living conditions, and mine-community development.
• Manage skills-development initiatives and relationships with the relevant SETA, including grant applications, Workplace Skills Plans and Annual Training Reports.
• Oversee learnerships, internships, apprenticeships, bursaries, and employee-development programmes.
• Monitor compliance with the Mining Charter and support required transformation reporting.
• Develop and track employment-equity, localisation, skills-development, procurement, and management-representation targets.
• Support the organisation’s B-BBEE strategy, verification process, evidence collection, and scorecard improvement initiatives.
• Maintain accurate HR, training, transformation, and compliance records.
• Prepare reports for management, regulators, auditors, SETAs, verification agencies, and other stakeholders.

Skills

HR management

Labour relations

Disciplinary hearings

CCMA experience

People management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or diploma in HR/IR

Postgraduate HR or labour-law qualification

Job description

Flink Recruitment in Sandton, Gauteng seeks an accomplished HR leader to drive HR strategy and workforce planning in a permanent, onsite role. The position focuses on recruitment, performance, training, retention, and disciplinary processes within the mining sector.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in HR generalist/management, strong CCMA and Section 189 experience, and a proven track record with SLP, SETA, and B-BBEE compliance.