Assessment Specialist

Transnet Rail Engineering, an operating division of Transnet Limited, requires the services of the following suitably qualified persons at its Kilner Park Centre.

Job Description
Transnet Rail Engineering, an operating division of Transnet Limited, requires the services of the following suitably qualified persons at its
Kilner Park Centre.

Assessment Specialist (Ref HR/COMP475/5009)
Branch: Human Capital

Reporting directly to the Recruitment and Selection Manager (Human Capital), the incumbent will manage the day-to-day implementation of the assessment function at Transnet Rail Engineering for the purposes of recruitment, selection and development of human capital. This includes the implementation of an appropriate assessment strategy in support of the achievement of Transnet Rail Engineering's human capital objectives.

Minimum requirements: • An Honours degree in Industrial Psychology • Registration as a Psychometrist with HPCSA • 5-8 years' Human Capital experience at operational level (2 years at middle management level) • A Master's degree in Industrial or Organisational Psychology and registration as a Psychologist will be added advantages.

Knowledge: • Individual, group and organisation behaviour • Research and benchmarking • Psychometric evaluations • Assessment strategy development.

Skills: • Effective communication and interpersonal • Facilitation • Negotiation • Effective project and task management • Analytical abilities • Creativity • Code 08 driver's licence.

Attitudes: • Initiative • Enthusiastic desire to improve • Open minded • Persuasive self-driven • Sense of urgency • Reliable • Client orientated • Acceptance and understanding of cultural diversity • Independence.

NB: • Appointment will be made in terms of Company's Employment Equity Policy • Candidates will be subjected to a selection process • Certified proof of academic qualification must accompany the application
• Correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only • Certified copy of driver's licence must accompany the application.

Written applications accompanied by complete CVs must reach the following address not later than 12:00 on 8 March 2011: Corporate Human Capital, Transnet Rail Engineering, Kilner Park, fax: 086 674 4503 or e-mail: Xoliswa.mpelwane@transnet.net or Johannes.Mangqu@transnet.net or contact (012) 391-1438/1508.
Late applications will not be considered.

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