HR Manager & Community Liaison Specialist - TROTECH TANKS (PTY) Ltd - Sasol Secunda
(2023-11 - 2025-04)
Managed all IR and HR functions, ensuring full site compliance with the Main Agreement and company policies during the project lifecycle.
- Executed complex personnel onboarding procedures in line with the client contract, successfully mobilizing the site workforce.
- Acted as the primary point of contact and representative for management in meetings with local community leaders, ensuring social harmony and securing local labour sourcing.
- Successfully resolved grievances and mitigated all on-site labour risks, contributing to the timely and conflict-free completion of the large-scale project.
Resource Manager / IR & Onboarding Specialist - ADVENT ONE PROJECTS (PTY) Ltd
(2020-02 - 2023-10)
Provided critical IR oversight during a significant corporate transition (Management Buyout from Tubular to Advent One) from 2020-2021, ensuring seamless staff and contract transfer.
- Managed all employee relations and HR processes for the Kumba Iron Ore project, including handling sensitive retrenchment procedures due to workload fluctuations while maintaining legal compliance and industrial peace.
- Trained site supervisors on collective agreements and labour legislation to ensure proper on-site adherence and minimise formal disputes.
- Prepared detailed statistical reports on grievances, mediations, and arbitrations to identify high-risk areas and implement proactive conflict resolution strategies.
IR Manager & Community Liaison Manager - TUBULAR PROJECTS - Eskom - Kusile Power Station
(2014-11 - 2020-01)
Led the Industrial Relations function in a highly unionized, high-risk environment at Kusile Power Station (the 4th largest in the world). Actively managed and led a full HR Department consisting of HR Practitioner, HR Officer, ER Officer, Payroll Clerk, and Payroll Administrator.
- Successfully represented the company at the MEIBC-Centre for Dispute Resolution (CDR), CCMA pre-dismissal arbitrations, and con-arbs, resulting in favourable outcomes.
- Training of supervisors in order to understand MEIBC collective agreements and to handle grievances as they're first line managers.
- Providing guidance for Supervisors and Management to dispute resolution.
- Facilitating grievances and formal enquiries.
- Managing union relationship Numsa, Uasa, Neasa
- Ensure shop stewards action their duties in-line with LRA
- Managing pay roll to resolving pay queries at earliest.
- Training Supervisors on discipline in the work place
- Monitoring and controlling high absenteeism
- Conduct internal audits for DOL/MEIBC proactively to ensure compliance
- Report IR monthly, IR Bi-weekly, IR Action List, Eskom dashboard (All reports complied and submitted).
- Ensure compliance with client (General Electric Africa)
- Maintain Labour peace
- Investigate and resolve non-performance issues timeously.
- Ensure a disciplinary code is being consistently applied
- Develop and maintain effective HR/IR practises
- Ensure compliance ito SSA (Site Specific Agreement)
- Advice company in terms of compliance.
- Liaising with HSE to ensure compliance with legislation and update employees via toolbox talks.
- Applying exemptions where necessary
- Sitting in disciplinary enquiries.
- Develop advertising program and conduct first level interviews to screen applicants
- Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the company policies and legislation.
- Compilation of employee contracts of employment within the scope of BCEA and or MEIBC.
- Represent management in labour contract negotiations or serve as resource to negotiators by providing information on provisions of current contract.
- Drafting strike handling guidelines in order to remedy unprotected industrial action.
- Facilitating the implementation of unions/management meetings.
- Developed interpretations of site labour agreements to counsel management on labour relations policies, significantly reducing the company's exposure to labour litigation.
Compliance Agent - MEIBC (Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council)
(2008-06 - 2014-10)
Enforced adherence to the Main Agreement and various statutory obligations across the Metal and Engineering Industries. Gained extensive, firsthand knowledge of statutory compliance, wage determinations, and industry-wide dispute resolution mechanisms.
- Investigate complaints from stakeholders
- Compliance Management
- Assist in the prevention and resolution of dispute within parties
- Conduct job grading, blitz, routine inspections and registrations of companies in the Metal Industry.
- Professionally interacting and liaison with management, employees and stakeholders of the industry.
- Attend CDR (center for dispute resolutions) Arbitrations and Conciliations
- Education trade unions, scheduled employees about Collective Main Agreement
- Prepare report to stakeholders and provide monthly plan to the regional manager
- Supervising and mentoring subordinates
Team Leader - NAMPAK TISSUE SANCELLER
(2005-08 - 2008-05)
- Liaise with the planner for the daily/weekly and monthly production plan
- Plan and co-ordinate labour according to production plan
- Do necessary changeovers according to production plan
- Plan and co-ordinate material according to production plan versus actual.
- Ran machines according to the desired speed.
- Address short stops and waste on machines
- Attend to break downs on machines
- Manage material variance on lines according to production plan
- Manage overtime and overhead cost for the lines
- Do the Bill of Material (BOM) to manage Material Usage Consumption (MUC)
- Co-ordinate leave for employees according to production plan
- Liaise with planner for material lead time for production to be ran
- Liaise with planner if the plan wont be met due to material shortage
- Deliver plan according to plan versus actual.
- Monitor absenteeism on lines and take corrective actions where necessary
- Measure the amount of tags raised on lines for hazards and safety standards.
- Have cell meeting to address issues pertaining the lines.
- Do quality audits weekly on lines
- Raise CAR (Corrective Action Report)
- Measure waste and monitor defects on lines
- Comply with ISO 9000 audit
- Do visual check on line for quality deformed products
- Register hourly checks on books for conformity
- Ensure safety is adhered to on all lines
- Issue relevant PPE to employees
- Raise tags for potential danger on machines and ensure technicians attends to them.
- Do daily safety audits on lines
- Ensures that housekeeping is done on lines
- Issue a work permits to any hazard jobs to be done on machines.
- Raise safety awareness on lines by doing hazard spotting
- Conduct safety meetings to raise awareness and address all safety hazards on lines.
- Co-ordinate maintenance on lines to technicians
- Do preventative maintenance on lines with technicians
- Plan breakdowns preventative on lines.
- Do continuous improvement on lines using TPM methodology (5why:5W+H: fish bone)
Line Co-ordinator - PROCTER & GAMBLE
(2003-07 - 2005-07)
Went for training on JOA lines (Diaper Machines) in Egypt for three months.
- Draft and monitor CIL's (cleaning inspection lubricating) on machines
- Analyses stops and plan maintenance on machines
- Attend daily production operations meetings
- Assists in building of units
- Matrix leader on area line
- Assign to teams in terms of operation to reach their targets
- Do appraisal system to each technician for their performance
