Payroll and HR Officer

Step into a Payroll and HR Officer role in Butterworth and make your mark across Eastern Cape. The team is hiring now and wants to hear from sharp, committed candidates.

What This Role Involves

The Payroll and HR Officer position is part of an ongoing recruitment drive across Eastern Cape. The brief has been shaped carefully, with a focus on delivery in Butterworth and across the hr jobs space.

Equally, the role suits a candidate who values consistency and clear communication. The Butterworth operation runs on accurate work, steady relationships and a genuine respect for the people in the team.

Quality is everyone’s job. Whether the Payroll and HR Officer is processing a transaction, supporting a colleague or handling a customer query, the standard expected in Eastern Cape is consistently high and consistently fair.

Internal documentation, process notes and shared playbooks make it easier for the Payroll and HR Officer to step into the hr jobs workflow quickly. Institutional knowledge is well-organised, so people are not reinventing the wheel from one week to the next.

Why This Role

Importantly, the company invests in the people who join it. From structured onboarding to ongoing skills development, you will find clear paths to grow your career in hr jobs from your base in Butterworth. Many colleagues across Eastern Cape have moved into senior roles after starting in positions just like this one.

Recognition matters here. Strong performers are noticed quickly, and many promotions across the business have started in the Butterworth teams.

Benefits are clear and consistent. Beyond the package on offer, the role includes the supports you would expect from an established South African employer in Eastern Cape.

Notably, the company reinvests in its people: paid training, internal moves and the chance to take on bigger projects are all part of how careers in Butterworth keep progressing.

What Your Day Looks Like

Your day is people-shaped from the moment you log in. You move between recruitment screens, manager calls, payroll queries and the occasional sensitive conversation that needs your full attention. Mid-morning you might be running an onboarding session for new starters, and by the afternoon you’re back at your desk preparing EE or B-BBEE reports. Through it all, you balance compliance with care, making sure that policies are followed and people are heard.

Beyond that, the Butterworth office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.

In addition, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Eastern Cape operations throw up the unexpected.

No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Butterworth.

Equal Opportunity

Inclusion is a core part of how the team operates. This is an equal-opportunity employer, and candidates from all communities — including women, youth and persons living with disabilities — are encouraged to apply for this role in Butterworth.

Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Eastern Cape.

B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.

Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Butterworth.

Working in Butterworth

Butterworth continues to grow as an employment hub in Eastern Cape, with near the Port of Ngqura logistics hub. This role gives you a foothold in one of its busier business communities, with access to the local services, suppliers and partners that keep the work moving.

Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Butterworth.

Many candidates already living within reach of Butterworth cite the location as one of the role’s quiet wins, with shorter commutes and a real sense of being plugged into the local Eastern Cape economy.

If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Butterworth, Eastern Cape.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate employee records on the HRIS
• Manage benefits, pension or provident fund and medical aid administration
• Support managers with disciplinary, grievance and incapacity processes
• Coordinate training, learnerships and bursary programmes with SETAs
• Compile workforce reports for EE, B-BBEE and skills development submissions

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Human Resources or Industrial Psychology
• Coaching mindset with the ability to support line managers
• Ability to handle sensitive employee information with discretion
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Project management skills for HR initiatives and rollouts
• Hands-on experience with HRIS and payroll systems
• Commitment to fairness, transformation and ethical conduct

Candidates who meet most of these criteria are welcome to be considered for the role.