A professional who plans and carries out policies relating to all phases of personnel activity. Responsibilities include:

• Recruits, interviews, and selects employees to fill vacant positions.
• Plans and conducts new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward company goals.
• Keeps record of insurance coverage, pension plan, and personnel transactions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, and terminations.
• Investigates accidents and prepares reports for insurance carrier.
• Conducts wage survey within labor market to determine competitive wage rate.
• Prepares budget of personnel operations.
• Meets with shop stewards and supervisors to resolve grievances.
• Writes separation notices for employees separating with cause and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separations.
• Prepares reports and recommends procedures to reduce absenteeism and turnover.
• Represents company at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
• Contracts with outside suppliers to provide employee services, such as canteen, transportation, or relocation service.
• May prepare budget of personnel operations, using computer terminal.
• May administer manual and dexterity tests to applicants.
• May supervise clerical workers.
• May keep records of hired employee characteristics for governmental reporting purposes.
• May negotiate collective bargaining agreement with business representative, labor union .