The Mukwano Group of Companies is the leading manufacturer of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) in the Great Lakes region, producing a wide range of market leader brands in soaps, edible cooking oils and fats, detergents, beverages, personal care products and plastics.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Liaise with Selection and Appraisal Advisor in facilitating shop floor recruitment, performance appraisal, contract renewals, confirmations, promotions and complying to manpower optimization reports.
• Liaise with Training and Development Advisor to conduct and evaluate Trainings done at the shop floor.
• Liaise with the Employee Relations and Welfare Advisor in motivating and disciplining employees by participating in all welfare activities such as award ceremonies and disciplinary inquiries respectively at the shop floor.
• Ensure daily staff attendance, shift schedules and all leaves taken are updated in a timely manner.
• Liaise with Payroll advisor to cross check attendance reports generated from logic time, where need be rectified and handle absenteeism cases.
• Worjk in liaison with other supervisors at the shop floor ensure staff overtime and night allowance data is compiled and submitted to Payroll Advisor.
• Conduct routine manpower and plant checks to ensure all staff comply with established policies and procedures, following up and resolving of issues within the plant
• Ensure all employees adhere and comply with Personnel Protective Equipment requirements.
• Conduct biweekly roll call of all staff at the shop floor.
• Receive loans, leave and salary advance applications, forwarding them to Human Resource Department and making a follow up.
• Advise and help the Business Unit Manager on human resource related issues and to deal with employees at plant.
• Attend to minor disciplinary issues, help in enforcing discipline among employees and generate incident and accident reports to be submitted to Employee Relations and Welfare advisor
• Prepare weekly reports to be submitted to the Human Resource Manager.
• Perform any other duties assigned from time to time.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a bachelor’s degree in human resource management, Psychology; Social Sciences, Social Work and other related discipline
• One year of working experience in a similar role in a large company.
• Knowledge of existing labor laws
• Communication skills and Interpersonal skills.
• Result Oriented
• Good records management skills
• Knowledge of computer packages
• Counseling skills, flexible and eager to rotate from one factory to any other at any one given moment.