Sandton: Senior Human Resources Manager

About the Role

The Senior Human Resources Manager is a critical leadership role that provides strategic direction for all people-related functions within our manganese mining environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring workforce compliance, safety, skills development, productivity, and alignment with operational and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Align HR strategy with production forecasts, labour demand, expansions, and shutdowns.
• Lead organisational design, workforce and succession planning, fatigue management, and use HR analytics to track absenteeism, contractor usage, safety, SLP commitments, and workforce stability.
• Drive digital HR transformation across HRIS, biometric clocking, compliance, and AI recruitment.
• Manage union relationships, wage negotiations, disputes, and strike mitigation.
• Maintain sound industrial relations for remote mining operations and ensure compliance with MHSA, BCEA, LRA, EE Act, SDA, OHSA, and SLP obligations.
• Develop strategies to attract and retain scarce mining talent, including technical and artisan roles.
• Support learnerships, apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and community training aligned with MQA, Skills Development, and SLP commitments.
• Implement performance systems linked to production, safety, compliance, and quality.
• Oversee HR policies, roster rules, remote site accommodation, expatriate policies, compensation, allowances, housing, camp management, payroll compliance, labour budgets, and financial risk reporting.
• Promote a safety-first culture through HR-HSE integration.
• Manage discipline, grievances, hearings, diversity, EE, Mining Charter transformation, and employee wellness, including fatigue, heat stress, and psychosocial support.
• Lead HR compliance reporting for SLP, LED, EE, and local employment.
• Engage communities on local hiring, training, and bursaries, drive ESG-aligned people initiatives, and represent the mine at industry and labour forums.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Industrial Relations, Labour Law, or related field (Honours or postgraduate advantageous).
• Minimum of 810 years progressive HR experience, including at least 5 years at a senior level in mining or heavy industrial sector (manganese or other mineral commodities highly advantageous).
• Knowledge of MPRDA, MHSA, Mining Charter, SLP, and mining labour and community employment regulations (mandatory).
• Proven experience in managing union negotiations, workforce housing, rotational shifts, living-out allowances, and community labour obligations.
• Experience leading HR in remote-site, multi-shaft, or multi-operation mining environments.
• Registration with SABPP, IPM, or professional HR bodies (advantageous).

Qualifications

No qualifications mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Salary bracket: R 0 – 0

Personal Attributes

High resilience, cultural awareness, confidentiality, negotiation diplomacy, ethical judgment, influence, and stakeholder credibility.