HR Administrator FTC

RCL Foods

Location
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Contract
Contract
Minimum qualification
Bachelor's degree
Closing date

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In brief

**Overview** This is a Fixed Term Contract (FTC) role for an HR Administrator within RCL Foods' baking business unit. The position is based in Durban and reports to the HR Business Partner. The primary purpose of the role is to ensure effective Human Resources support to the assigned business unit/factory by adequately delivering HR Services, practices, and procedures. **What you will do** The HR Administrator will be responsible for a wide range of HR functions, including: * **Talent Administration:** Providing recruitment administration support for A and B Bands (and occasionally C Band), conducting checks (ITC, reference, criminal, medical), announcing new appointments, managing the new joiner process, offering HR support and advice to employees and line managers, handling various leave processes (maternity, paternity, adoption, parental), managing health, safety, and IOD processes, administering the performance management system, entering data into the HR system, preparing weekly management information reports, liaising with payroll and assisting with payslip queries, processing medical aid/fund entries and withdrawals, handling death and disability claims, capturing disciplinary records, administering absence and leave, managing probationary review periods, maintaining personnel filing, managing leave administration, disseminating policies, administering training and bursary documentation, ensuring employment equity paperwork and reports are submitted, and resolving HR administration-related queries. * **Resourcing:** Processing permissions to recruit, handling offers of employment and negotiations, ensuring adherence to the resourcing process including timely job advertising and tracking, supervising onboarding orientation, and obtaining/capturing onboarding/on-the-job training registers. * **Organisational Design:** Liaising with Line Managers for proposed positions, drawing up new proposed organisational structures for sign-off, managing and updating business organisational structure on SAP, and driving change management initiatives. * **Payroll:** Meeting monthly payroll deadlines, ensuring timely capturing of leave forms and terminations, ensuring timesheets are certified/approved, loading/removing TES on the T&A system, reporting excessive hours edited, providing monthly headcount reports, preparing and issuing termination paperwork, arranging exit medicals, completing maternity leave processes, assisting with provident fund applications, and ensuring accuracy of TES records. * **Training Development:** Facilitating HR training sessions and capturing internal and external training data. * **BBBEE:** Capturing all training and donations onto the BBBEE spreadsheet and ensuring donation thank you letters are obtained. * **Employee Relations:** Advising line managers on conduct and misconduct management, supporting investigations for disciplinary and grievance procedures, reviewing practices for statutory compliance, participating in consultations with organised labour, representing the organisation at CCMA Conciliation and Arbitration, chairing monthly Shop Steward meetings (in the absence of the HRBP), and managing and coordinating employee wellness. * **HR Administration:** Managing new employee onboarding and terminations/exit interviews, capturing HR information and data into relevant systems, providing advice on HR policies and procedures (including equal opportunity, anti-discrimination, OHS), advising management on work matters, counselling employees on policies and rules, preparing and processing employment and personnel reports and surveys, providing advice on discrimination issues, handling payslip queries, conducting weekly departmental visits and monthly depot visits with reports, ensuring weekly filing, updating and communicating incentive stats, progressing "Coffee with Q/Management" sessions, emptying suggestion boxes weekly, overseeing Recognition Awards, conducting monthly payroll query sessions, attending monthly departmental meetings, minute taking, and assisting in ad-hoc HR functions. * The role also contributes to key performance indicators (KPIs) such as the reduction of Disciplinary and CCMA Cases, driving statutory compliance in terms of BCEA, ensuring accuracy and completeness of records and documentation, achieving administration turnaround times, and contributing to client satisfaction rates. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Degree in Human Resource Management * Valid Code EB drivers’ licence and Own car * Travel is required for this role. * Must have at least 2 years’ experience as a HR role. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for a driven, highly energized, and people-focused individual with a Degree in Human Resource Management and at least two years of HR experience. The ideal candidate will possess a valid Code EB driver's licence, own a car, and be willing to travel as required. They should be capable of providing comprehensive HR administrative support across various functions within a fast-paced environment and be based in Durban for this fixed-term contract. **Deadline** 15th October,2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/hr-administrator-ftc-rcl-foods-2 Source: myjobmag

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At a glance

  • At least 2 years of experience.
  • SAP
  • Payroll
  • Health and safety (OHS)
  • Driver's licence

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Job description

* RCL Foods is recruiting for a driven, highly energized and people focused HR Administrator FTC within the baking business unit. * The suitable candidate will be responsible to ensure effective Human Resources support to the business unit/factory through adequate delivery of HR Services, practices, procedures. * This role will be based in Durban and reporting to the HR Business Partner. * This role is a Fixed term role. Minimum Requirements Education and Qualification * Degree in Human Resource Management * Valid Code EB drivers’ licence and Own car Travel in required for this role Experience and Training * Must have at least 2 years’ experience as a HR role. Duties & Responsibilities Talent Administration * Provide all recruitment administration support for A and B Bands appointments within 30 days of vacancy. Occasionally assist in recruitment administration support in C Band appointments in the absence of the HRP. * Ensure all ITC checks, reference and criminal record checks are carried out fully and in a timely manner. * Ensure all Entry Medicals are arranged and executed for all appointments * Announce new appointments by the 3rd of every month. * Manage the new joiner process from offer letter through to joining instructions and onboarding. * Provide HR support and advice to employees and line managers, explaining policies and procedures in a timely and effective manner. * Handle maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave processes and queries. * Handle health, safety and IOD processes and queries. * Administer the performance management system. * Enter data into the HR system so that accurate records are maintained. * Provide data for and prepare management information reports weekly on a Monday. * Liaise with payroll and assist with payslips queries within 24 hours of receiving same. * Process medical aid / fund entries and withdrawals. * Process death and disability claim documents. * Capture disciplinary records into SAP and on ER spreadsheet. * Administer the recording of absence. * Administer the recording of leave. * Administer the probationary review periods. * Maintain the personnel filing system and safeguard the files and documentation. * Manage the leave administration process. * Distribute/disseminate policies and convey related communication. * Administer training and bursary documentation. * Ensure that all employment equity deviation paperwork and reports are submitted and filed. * Answer all channelled HR administration-related queries from employees and managers in the business and ensure their resolution in accordance with service standards. Resourcing * Process permissions to recruit workflow. * Process the offers of employment/negotiation. * Ensure that the Resourcing process is adhered to and jobs are timeously advertised on the recruitment platforms and tracked. * Supervise the onboarding orientation of new employees. * Obtain onboarding/on the job training registers and capture on the training spreadsheet. Organisational Design * Liaise with Line Managers to get rationale for proposed positions, draw up new proposed org and submit to HRBP for sign off. * Manage and update business organisational structure on SAP and ensure that all structures are up to date. * Drive change management initiatives in line with the business and organisational objectives Payroll * Meet the payroll deadlines monthly. * Ensure all leave forms are captured within 24 hours of receiving the leave forms. * Ensure all terminations are submitted within 24 hours of receiving same. * Ensure all timesheets are certified/approved by no later than the first of each month. * Ensure all TES are loaded onto the T&A system and TES no longer in use are removed. HRP to audit every three months. * Any hours edited in excess of 10 hours must be reported to the HRP. * Monthly headcount report to be provided to HRP * Prepare and issue all termination paperwork to terminated employee within 48 hours of termination. * Ensure that Exit medical is arranged. * Ensure all maternity leave processes are completed at least one month prior to the commencement of maternity leave. * Assist and close-off all provident fund applications from obtaining documentation from employee to submitting to payroll to employee payout. * Ensure TES records are accurate and up to date. * Ensure TES clock in hours match the roster and TT daily. Training Development * Facilitate HR training including adhoc refresher for employees and Line Managers. * Capture all internal and external training spreadsheet. BBBEE * Capture all training onto the BBBEE spreadsheet * Capture all donations onto the BBBEE spreadsheet * Ensure we have the donation thank you letters for monthly donations Employee Relations * Provide advice to line managers regarding the conduct and misconduct management processes. * Provide support in investigations for disciplinary and grievance procedures. * Review practices to ensure statutory compliance and regularly provide guidance to line managers. * Participate in consultations with organised labour. * Represent the organisation at CCMA Conciliation and Arbitration * Chair the monthly meetings with Shop Stewards in the absence of HRBP. * Manage and coordinate employee wellness including coordination of clinics, KKS, and capacity in meetings. HR Administration * Manage new employee on-boarding process. * Manage terminations and exit interviews. * Manage the capturing of HR information and data into the relevant systems and assure the integrity of the data. * Provide advice and information to management and employees on HR policies and procedures, including equal opportunity, anti-discrimination and occupational health and safety programmes. * Advise management on work matters, career development, personal problems and industrial matters. * Counsel employees on policies and rules relating to employment policies and programmes, and on the company’s rules and regulations. * Prepare and process employment and personnel reports and surveys. * Provide advice and assistance to staff members regarding possible discrimination on the basis of race, religion, non-relevant physical or mental disability, sex and age. * All payslips and payslip queries to be handled within 24 hours of receiving same. * All departments must be visited once per week and depots once per month. Weekly visits into the operational departments for employee check-ins with a report provided to the HRP within 24 hours of the check-in. * All filing to be done weekly. * Ensure Incentive stats are updated and communicated monthly and quarterly. * Ensure the 2x Coffee with Q/Management sessions progress monthly with call to actions updated on Tracker. * Ensure suggestion boxes are emptied weekly and feedback given within 48 hours of receiving the content. * Oversee the Recognition Awards monthly. * Monthly payroll query sessions with feedback to HRP within 24 hours of the session. * Attend monthly departmental meetings with HOD and provide feedback. * Minute taking in meetings. * Assist in Adhoc HR functions where necessary. KPI’s * Reduction of Disciplinary and CCMA Cases * Drive statutory compliance in terms of BCEA. * Accuracy and completeness of records and documentation * Administration turnaround times * Client satisfaction rate Deadline:15th October,2026

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