International Employee Relations and HR Compliance Officer

The Company:

Geolog is an independent and privately owned international oilfield services company with Headquarters in Europe and the UAE and presence in over 40 countries. The Company delivers field based solutions for the improvement of exploration, reservoir evaluation and drilling effectiveness. The Finance department seeks to add a resource in its Dubai office (Jumeirah Lakes Towers).

The Position:

In this position, you will work closely with senior management, internal and external legal counsel, employees, and other stakeholders to help design and implement policies and a Companywide compliance strategy. You will manage the relationship between Geolog and our employees. Ensure that transparent practices are in place that protect our employees and our business alike. You will be our employee champion, ensuring that the company’s global operations are implementing best practice and are locally compliant.

Reporting to the Global Head of hiuman resources, You will be:

• Accountable for the Companys’ global employee relations strategy
• Provide strategic advice and day to day practical support on all matters related to employment and employee relations, including but not limited to:
• disciplinaries, grievances, investigations
• performance
• absence
• Restructuring, redundancies and reorganisations
• Senior contracts
• Restrictive covenants
• Policies & Processes
• Maintain a collaborative and trustful relationship with all people managers across the organization, ensuring that you are the point of contact for all Employee relations questions or issues.
• Build and maintain a network of relevant Legal support in all areas of operation to ensure HR compliance and manage risk.
• Where necessary, develop and maintain policies and procedures that serve to protect employees and the business and remove ambiguity from any potential action plan.
• Provide legal advice and clear interpretation of HR Policy, Labour Law and Collective Bargaining laws.
• Personally manage escalated cases of grievance or other Employee relations cases.

Skills

Desired Skills

• Proven labour and employee relations experience with a minimum of five years gained in a multinational environment.
• Qualification in HR management or employment law from an accredited university or college
• Sound experience in working & building relationships with employees and people managers.
• Experience with project management, change management as well as stakeholder management.
• Proficient in verbal and written communication in English.
• Additional European languages will be a distinct advantage.