West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) is one of the first greenfield container terminal to be built in Nigeria under public-private partnership. WACT is located in Onne port (some 30kms from Port-Harcourt) in Rivers State. We have been successfully connecting East, North, West Central Nigeria and Rivers state to the world.
We run a profitable business that has been made possible through top-quality services, cordial business relations with customers, regular interaction with stakeholders, human resource development, modern handling equipment and superior e-commerce capabilities.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Employee Relations Specialist
Ref.: AT-276974
Location: Onne, Rivers
Key Resposibilities
- Responsible for the collection of relevant labour relations data and for providing information and expert counsel and guidance
- Supports in establishing a positive and engaging workplace culture by effectively facilitating and resolving employee relations matters.
- Provides day-to-day advice and counsel to managers on a wide range of employee relations issues including progressive counselling, performance management, company policies and procedures.
- Serves as a trusted advisor to Managers and HR team, consults, advises, coaches, educates and provides decision making support to the business on a variety of employee relations issues.
- Identifies and recommends strategies to address current and future employee relations and retention needs.
- Mitigates risk by ensuring compliance with APM Terminals policies & local labuor laws.
- Evaluates and reviews employee related decisions in response to employee concerns.
- Identifies, analyses and implements resolutions to complex and sensitive issues in a timely and professional manner.
- Leads and conducts investigations regarding potential misconduct and policy violations.
- Supports the outcome of cases throughout partnership with the business.
- Supports the organization with legislatively compliant implementation of initiatives.
- Uses metrics to highlight trends and develop strategies to foster positive employee relations.
- Make recommendations based on assessment of trend and root cause analysis.
- Assist in executing certain collective bargaining and/or union activities, including agreements.
- Mediate any issues of conflict that may have been escalated due to differences between management; union and employees.
- Track and ensure compliance against labour legislative requirements and conditions of employment.
- Maintains a database of key contacts, important to the work of employee relations.
- Manage relationship with external labour providers ensuring that such providers are legislatively compliant.
Requirements
- Requires a university degree or its equivalent in Human Resources, Personnel Management or in other disciplines such as Public Administration, Business Administration or other Management Science disciplines.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in HR, especially on employee/labour relations
- Professional Certification in HR – CIPM, PHRi, SHRM etc will be an added advantage
- Expert knowledge of the Labour Law.
- Substantial knowledge and usage of Microsoft Office Tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Self-starting, taking initiatives to influence events to achieve goals.
- Well-organised, timely, and persistent.
- Effective teamwork – inside and outside own organisation and authority lines.
- Should possess a strong work ethic and integrity.
- You should have excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills (both written and oral). In addition, you should have organisational and time management skills including multi-tasking, prioritising, and the ability to plan work activities efficiently to meet deadlines.
Application Closing Date
18th July, 2021.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online