South Deep is recruiting!

This is an opportunity to bring your expertise to a dynamic and engaged team of professionals, working together to become the beacon of pride for our people, our communities, our stakeholders, and our shareholders.

At South Deep, we value each person’s individual and collective contribution and support your ongoing development, helping you to achieve your career and our business aspirations.

POSITION:                 Supervisor: People 

JOB GRADING:          C Upper

DEPARTMENT:          People

SITE:                           South Deep Gold Mine

The Supervisor People occupy a key operational role in delivering support and tactical people management interventions to enable and entrench the transformational people leadership journey at South Deep.  Accountable to the departmental People Manager, the incumbent interfaces with operational line leadership and their teams to deliver efficient and qualifty People (HR) support in relation to Talent Management, Employee Relations, Attendance Management, Talent Acuisition, Leadership and Change initiatives

Minimum Requirements:

• Grade 12 qualification or equivalent
• Tertiary qualified with a degree in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology or related field
• Intermediate Computer skills (Microsoft Office suite)
• Human Resources Information Systems knowledge and experience
• Have at least 5 years’ relevant experience in a HR environment, with a proven track record on a supervisory level, preferably in the mining industry
• Be declared medically fit for the position and environment, as determined by a risk-based medical examination at the Gold Fields Occupational Health Centre and pass a Heat Tolerance Screening test, and such other tests as may be required to assess the applicant’s suitability for employment

NOTE: all relevant certificates must be attached to your CV in order to be considered for shortlisting

Key Competencies:

• Proven strong leadership skills to mobilize teams of people
• Sound interpersonal relations, collaboration and good communication skills
• Display strong analytical, problem solving and presentation abilities
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve tight deadlines
• Strong decision-making skills
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Have well-developed interviewing and interpersonal competencies
• Pay attention to detail and have a meticulous and well-organised work method
• Be diplomatic yet assertive with unquestionable integrity and work ethic
• Have a sound working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (advanced Microsoft Excel) and appropriate HR information systems
• Working knowledge and application of the following HR disciplines

• • Talent Acquisition and Management
  • Employee Relations
  • Attendance Management
  • Organisational Development and Design
  • Labour deployment and Management
  • Learning and Development

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engage with business to define and compile workforce planning schedules/labour requirements
• Refine and maintain workforce planning standards and norms including productivity and efficiency metrics as primary workforce planning inputs into cyclical labour forecasting and budgeting preparation
• Maintain regular workforce planning, strength/vacancy analysis and availability reports (monthly, quarterly, annually, ad-hoc, etc
• Ensure that role profiles are current, and updated as required prior to drafting role adverts for publishing
• Engage with line leaders and discipline leads to determine sourcing priorities aligned to transformation and talent management needs i.e., targeted sourcing to ensure potential candidate profile match
• Shortlist job applicants based on role and legislative requirements with line and oversee interview and selection logistics
• Create bespoke onboarding programmes in partnership with line
• Support the HRBP to prepare and oversee annual Performance Management and Talent Review processes and assist and advise discipline line leaders to prepare for these sessions
• Advise and assist line leaders to develop and source appropriate employee development interventions
• Prepare accurate and timely employee attendance/availability reports and trend analysis and, lead interventions to address as delegated
• Participate in and support the development of various leadership development and culture transformation interventions
• Lead various campaigns with front line leaders and their teams designed to reinvigorate leadership and team effectiveness to embed the South Deep values, culture, leadership, behaviours and performance
• Provide people leadership within the department by managing workload, assigning tasks, and reviewing/recognising outputs of team member

Closing Date: 03 February 2026

Please note that the Gold Fields code of conduct strictly prohibits the exchange of any payment as part of its recruitment process.

 Should you require any assistance or have any challenges in applying for a position, please contact the Recruitment hub on 011 411 1387

Creating enduring value beyond mining

Gold Fields is committed to advancing Employment Equity (EE) through our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) values. We encourage Historically Disadvantaged South Africans (HDSA) and differently abled candidates to apply.