HR & IR Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Policy Development and Enforcement

• Develop, review, and implement HR policies and standard operating procedures, ensuring alignment with company objectives and current labour legislation.

• Drafting and sending out of notices and memorandums to site.

• Compiling and maintaining site safety files.

Industrial Relations

• Provide advice and strategic guidance to management on labour laws, disciplinary procedures, and best practices in employee relations.

• Lead or support investigations into employee misconduct and take appropriate disciplinary action in line with company policies and labour laws.

• Draft and issue formal IR documents such as notices to attend disciplinary hearings, warnings, grievance outcomes, and other relevant correspondence.

• Chairing of disciplinary hearings and issuing of outcomes.

• Preparing for and attending CCMA and NBCPSS matters, managing labour disputes, and ensuring fair and compliant resolution of IR issues.

Retrenchments and Short Time

• Facilitate retrenchment consultations and manage short-time implementation procedures in compliance with the Labour Relations Act.

Recruitment and Onboarding

• Manage and coordinate the full recruitment lifecycle, including job postings, interviews, offer letters, and onboarding of new employees.

• Ensuring that new recruits are booked for medicals as and when required.

External Compliance Queries

• Address and respond to queries or audits from external bodies including the Labour Department, bargaining council and PSIRA.

• Attend to queries from the UIF and provident fund.

Employee Communication and Engagement

• Conduct employee meetings, consultations, and briefings as required, and maintain consistent, formal communication with sites, reaction officers and the control room via memos and notices.

Employee Support and Query Resolution

• Handle and resolve employee queries received via telephone or email, ensuring timeous responses.

• Handing employee grievances.

Record Keeping and Filing

• Maintain and update all HR records, employee files, and case documentation.

Labour Inspections and Compliance

• Prepare for and manage Labour Department and Bargaining Council inspections, ensuring full regulatory compliance across all HR and IR functions.

General HR Admin and Support

• Provide administrative support for HR-related projects and handle day-to-day ad hoc tasks as assigned.

• Managing of stationery and uniform stock levels.

Control Room and Site Covering

• Ensuring sites are covered at the change of every shift.

• Ensure that relievers are arranged from reaction and control room in the event of shortages

Client Communication

• Monitoring of client groups and responding to queries and concerns.

Union Relations and Management

• Monitoring and managing union activities in line with company policies and legal requirements

• Attending to union queries and correspondence

Attending to union meetings

Desired Experience & Qualification

• SECURITY INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE MANDATORY. If you do not have this experience, please do not apply.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a senior HR role, with strong exposure to Industrial Relations.

• Degree in Human Resource Management, Labour Relations, or related field advantageous.

• Strong knowledge of South African Labour Laws.

• Experience with CCMA representations, union engagement, and regulatory inspections.

• Must have experience in a unionised environment.

Package & Remuneration

Market Related

Interested?

Send a copy of your CV and the relevant documentation with reference HR MANAGER to info @hizone.co.za . Should you not hear back from us within 30 days please consider that you application was unsuccessful.