Executive Manager: Human Resources (5 Year Fixed -Term Contract) Job at Mintek

Job role overview

  • Date posted

    August 14, 2026

  • Closing date

    September 14, 2026

  • Hiring location

    Gauteng

  • Qualification

    Masters

  • Experience

    10 years

Description

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

Leadership

  • Live the Mintek values, foster a culture of collaboration within Mintek.
  • Create an environment for the division to succeed and manage outputs.
  • Maintain consistently visible leadership.
  • Lead HRD.

Governance and Risk Management

  • Risk profiling and mitigation activities for the Division’s activities, including SHEQ.
  • Accountable for adherence to all Mintek’s policies and ethics within agreed thresholds.
  • Implement divisional and Mintek policies.
  • Ensure divisional compliance with applicable legislation.

Relationship Management and Reporting

  • Ensure the right data is available for accurate and useful reporting, making crucial data available “at the fingertips”.
  • Timely providing consolidated monthly and quarterly reports.
  • Monitor and report on Divisional performance, including financials.
  • Reporting value, ensuring critical issues and key results areas are addressed.
  • Stakeholder engagement, including the development of relationships with new stakeholders, stakeholder
    management and satisfaction for both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Drive standardisation, automation, and process optimisation to improve service quality and turnaround times.

Strategy

  • Drive the Human Resource Division strategy and operations, and develop plans for the implementation of the strategy.
  • Provide strategic leadership in the continuous management of performance, Human Resource information and remuneration systems.

Financial Sustainability

  • Deliver user-friendly, cost effective administrative and transactional business and employee support services.
  • Annual expenditure budget of R20m.
  • Must be able to apportion expenditure accurately and correctly according to funding source (Science Vote, Mintek or earmarked funds).

Performance Management

  • Deliver on the division’s KPI’s.
  • Undertake performance management for the Division.
  • Ensure that systems and tools are in place to monitor and measure the delivery of the divisional activities.

Governance and Risk Management

  • Risk profiling and mitigation activities for the Division’s activities, including SHEQ.
  • Accountable for adherence to all Mintek’s policies and ethics within agreed thresholds.
  • Implement divisional and Mintek policies.
  • Ensure divisional compliance with applicable legislation.

Relationship Management and Reporting

  • Ensure the right data is available for accurate and useful reporting, making crucial data available “at the fingertips”.
  • Timely providing consolidated monthly and quarterly reports.
  • Monitor and report on Divisional performance, including financials.
  • Reporting value, ensuring critical issues and key results areas are addressed.
  • Stakeholder engagement, including the development of relationships with new stakeholders, stakeholder
    management and satisfaction for both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Drive standardisation, automation, and process optimisation to improve service quality and turnaround times.

Minimum requirements

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Master's degree level Human Resources Management or relevant (NQF – level 9).
  • 10 years’ experience on the relevant field of which 5 years must be on management position.
  • Good business insight.
  • Knowledge of Mintek’s business products and activities.
  • A thorough knowledge of PFMA and applicable legislation.
  • Report writing skills.
  • Policy and procedure writing.

COMPETENCIES:

  • HR Expertise.
  • Demonstrated ability to function at senior or executive management level.
  • Sound practical knowledge of leading talent management and business re-engineering processes.
  • Ability to initiate, implement and monitor Human Resource service delivery processes.
  • Ability to establish, manage and lead effective teams as well as optimal use of resources to achieve business results.
  • Strategy and business plan development and implementation.
  • Ability to lead diverse teams to ensure delivery and efficiency.
  • Ethical Practices.
  • Business and financial management.
  • Leadership of people and operations management.

SKILLS:

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Excellent numerical and quantitative skills.
  • Good management and leadership skills.
  • Self-driven.
  • People skills.
  • Strategic thinking.
  • Ability to multi task.
  • Ability to get things done.
  • Ability to lead by example.

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