Manager/Senior Manager - Industrial Relations - Manufacturing

We have an urgent opening with the renowned refractory Manufacturing company.

POSITION TITLE: Manager/ Senior Manager - IR

REPORTS TO: Employee Relations Lead

LOCATION: Katni

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

Responsible for all Plant IR operations at Katni Plant. Responsibilities also include Contract Labour Management, trade unions management, recruiting & training personnel, maintaining statutory compliances, liasioning with external stakeholders and ensuring harmonious industrial relations. In addition, the position is responsible for annual budget planning and execution.

JOB SCOPE/DIMENSIONS:

- Directly responsible for plant level HR operations viz. Contract Labour Management, Statutory Compliances, Site IR & Welfare Activities, trade union management, legal and liaisoning activities and support for Corporate Social responsibility at Katni Plant.

- Hold responsibility and accountability of interactions and engagements with the local government bodies to ensure a smooth operation in the Plant.

- Local travel related liaisoning activities.

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Key responsibilities:

HR Business Partnering

- Support the business, execute end to end delivery of services, solutions & interventions across all HR & IR processes

- Coordinate & execute the interventions in line with the COE's plan

- Support Corporate T.A. team w.r.t recruitment and hiring of para-professional employees for Katni Plant.

- Support Employee engagement process enabling enhanced employee experience across the Employee Life Cycle

- Provide advice & support to line managers on decisions pertaining to people matters and ensure high levels of ownership on contractors management.

- Coordinate, execute & provide support for various learning & development interventions for Para Professional employees

- Manage / maintain requisite HRIS as per organization's requirement

Industrial Relations

- Plan, develop and implement wage and salary programs to align with business strategy and external competitive concerns in the region for workers and contractual labour

- Complete Management of labour relations with support of plant management and Corporate HR including negotiation with worker unions, contractors

- Ensure seamless bi-partite wage settlement

- Ensure zero man-days loss on account of IR issues

- Managing employee grievance process and consultation with plants on union issues as needed.

- Serve as the plant expert on union issues as & when required

Site IR & Welfare

- Plant Canteen & Hospital Management.

- Grievance handling and taking structured actions as a preventive care management w.r.t potential IR Issues.

- Conducting inquiries w.r.t disciplinary issues at Site

- Handling court cases and speedy closure of such cases.

Statutory Compliance

- Ensure all statutory compliances at plant level wrt the unit in line with regulatory and legal requirements.

- Management of Contractual labour & third party employees including tracking and controlling attendance, supervising the compliances of contractual labour & third party employees

- Liaison with different government agencies

- Employee Database Management at plant level including management of personnel files

- Keep close watch on HR and administration related law changes and react to them actively

- Ensure HR & Admin contracts are in place & timely renewed

Safety

- Ensure implementation of relevant processes & Systems wrt to Serious 7 & Take 5.

- Create assimilation of Safety culture throughout the hierarchy of the organization.

- Work towards a vision of zero harm at Plant.

Others

- Plant administration including Security and Canteen and support in other administrative facilities/activities

- Drive Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives at plant level in line with Corporate strategy

- Periodically share metrics wrt Corporate HR in line with set objectives wrt process efficiency, effectiveness and cost/budgets

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education and Experience requirements

- MBA/PGD in Human Resources

- 10 - 15 years of experience in the related field. (Preferably in Manufacturing sector)