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JOB DESCRIPTION

Purpose

• The responsibilities of the role include compliance, staffing, administration/payroll, compensation & benefits, employee and labour relations, talent, development, and HR budgeting process in accordance with Group guidelines.
• He/she has to plan, organize and manage all HR activities and supervise the local HR team.

Reporting Line(s)

• Plant Manager/Functionally to Group HR

Responsibilities

• Compliance: 
• Ensure that the company's practices and employee behaviours are compliant with legal regulations and/or corporate guidelines – employment and labour laws, employment contracts, internal working regulations, and corporate and local policies.
• Employee and Labour Relations:
• Foster positive working relationships with labour unions (manufacturing and office environment);
• Understand, communicate and interpret collective bargaining agreements;
• Lead, in partnership with Plant Manager in all collective bargaining;
• Constantly liaise with Union and Employee representatives concerning Labor, planning and HR related matters;
• Collaborate with the Safety Committee. Provide, share information and deliver actions when needed concerning these bodies;
• Partner with Managers and resolve employee issues and problems as they arise.
• Staffing: 
• Define staffing needs and recruit the best adequate candidates thanks to practices & tools – job description, job adverts – internal/external – sourcing & selection methods.
• Budgeting & Planning:
• Define in partnership with local management and labour budgets/costs. Build planning and measurement systems to plan, follow and challenge labour/HR related costs;
• Prepare personnel forecast to project employment needs and cost.
• HR Administration & Payroll: 
• Handle efficiently (cost/time/availability) all HR administration operations - deliver accurate, reliable and on-time services/information to all employees, managers, and external (administration) related bodies.
• Compensation & Benefits:
• Handle our compensations and benefits practices - salaries, bonus, incentives, cars, group general insurances;
• Develop & maintain cost-effective, controlled practices, in line with group guidelines;
• Define policies/tools/systems to align our practices with our business objectives (Salary review practices, bonus systems, benefits policies, job grading, salary/market...).
• Talent & Performance Management:
• Drive and ensure annual appraisal process and targets definition are used properly with a people management mindset and ‘Performance’ focus;
• Support and guide Managers and employees on all talent management matters;
• Lead talent reviews to identify high/young potential and build local development programs;
• Build development plans and deliver adequately locally to guarantee people development/engagement in line with the current/forthcoming business needs.
• Business Partnering:
• Support and partner with the local Management in organisational matters and performance initiatives;
• Keep management advised of potential problem areas and recommend/implement solutions;
• Recommend new approaches, policies, and procedures to support continuous improvement;
• Facilitate lean initiatives and team development;
• Participate in the development and implementation of plant/department objectives and systems.
• Varia:
• Safety: Promote and support continuous improvement in safety. Track and respond to injury/illness issues;
• Values: Foster the company’s core values and support/develop local relative initiatives;
• Act as a broker of information with external networks (sector, local companies, federations, Unions) to guarantee the company's branding and secure reliable and useful information (salaries, social, community development …);
• Member of the Management Committee of the Factory.

Requirements

• Degree, ideally with an HR specialization;
• 10 years of relevant HR experience in an industrial/logistics environment and/or in the engineering/building materials/technical sector;
• Experience in production units is considered a strong asset;
• Track record in operational all-round HR activities, participation in plant executive committee, and awareness of project management practices;
• Sound knowledge of all HR activities (e.g. staffing, training, talent management, comp & bens, and so on...);
• Strong focus on specific industrial HR activities (work organization, labour costs, safety, social relations).
• Language: English. Any other language is a plus;
• Leadership & people management
• Independent, organized, proactive
• Ability to communicate effectively and work as part of a team, work within deadlines
• Be able to multi-task and prioritize work (different projects and technologies)
• Liaison officer and interactions/relations developer
• Well balanced between being structured & organized and intellectually agile & empathic

Quality - Hygiene – Safety – Environment – Energy

• Every worker has the obligation to take care of his/her safety and health, as well as that of his/her colleagues, including subcontractors. The worker also ensures the respect of the Values, knows and respects the rules and contributes to the objectives of the site and the group with regard to QHSEE.
• Any team leader needs to update the entity's QHSEE indicators and actively participate in the improvement of the entity's QHSEE indicators. He/She is also the guarantor of the respect of these rules with his/her team.