* Administer compensation, benefits and performance management systems, and safety and recreation programs.* Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview and select applicants.* Allocate human resources, ensuring appropriate matches between personnel.* Provide current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, opportunities for promotion and employee benefits.* Perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, firing employees, and administering disciplinary procedures.* Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.* Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.* Serve as a link between management an employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.* Analyze training needs to design employee development.* Maintain records and compile statistical reports concerning personnel-related data such as hires, transfers, performance appraisals, and absenteeism rates.* Analyze statistical data and reports to identify and determine causes of personnel problems and develop recommendations for improvement of organization's personnel policies and practices.* Conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination.* Represent organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.* Negotiate bargaining agreements and help interpret labor contracts.* Develop, administer and evaluate applicant tests.* Study legislation, arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining contracts to assess industry trends.