Employee Relations Specialist at Maersk

Job Ref.: AT-274882
Location: Onne, Rivers
Category: Human Resources

Key Responsibilities

• 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 labuor legislative requirements and conditions of employment.
• Maintains a database of key contacts, important to the work of employee relations.
• Manage relationship with external labuor providers ensuring that such providers are legislatively compliant.

Job Requirements
We are looking for:

• 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.

We Offer

• 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.