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Transportation Security Specialist
Transportation Security Administration · Posted 2 days ago
On-site Herndon, VA $85K – $158K Apply by Jul 8, 2026 General Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, And Compliance Series ENTJENTPINTJINTP Engineering
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Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.
What You'll Do
- →This Transportation Security Specialist position is located in the Interagency Airspace Security (IAS), Operational Planning and Coordination (OPC), Law Enforcement (LE), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Creating and disseminating daily operations briefs, required reports and notifications, operational messages, and information papers.
- →Recommending responses to events/crisis and making analytical input on potential or emerging threats.
- →Collecting, correlating, and characterizing of various types of events which may have impact on transportation security, to include all security modes and inter-agency/organizational coordination.
- →Drafting and distributing reports associated with the TSA response to emergency events in the transportation domain.
- →Analyzing the characterizations of events to make recommendations for internal resource deployment.
- →The major duties described above reflect the full performance level of this position.
- →Typically, the lower pay bands (G & H Bands) performs the same duties but will receive more guidance and training; and/or projects/work assignments may be less complex.
Requirements
- ✓You must possess U.S.
- ✓Citizenship or be a U.S.
- ✓You must have reached the minimum age (18) at the time of application.
- ✓You must complete a favorable Background Investigation (BI).
- ✓Selective Service registration is required.
- ✓You must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
- ✓This is an Emergency Essential Position.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment drug screening AND random drug/alcohol testing.
- ✓You must complete a favorable Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI).
- ✓Incumbent is required to work full-time on a rotating 24-hour schedule, 7 days per week and may be required to work rotating shifts or shifts outside of the standard workday/workweek on short notice to include weekends and holidays.
- ✓The incumbent will be on call 24 hours per day to cover emergency response needs.
- ✓Incumbent may be required to carry a paging device and/or mobile phone at all times.
- ✓If you fail to meet the conditions of employment or any other pre-employment requirements, such as missing any of the scheduled appointments, the hiring agency may rescind their tentative offer of employment.
- ✓Applying to this announcement certifies that you give permission for TSA to share your application with others in DHS for similar positions.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including: health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; telework; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any Federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
- ★Employees who transfer to TSA from an agency that allows employees to maintain an annual leave balance higher than the maximum accumulation for the appointed position will have their leave ceiling set to the maximum accumulation for the appointed position (e.g., United States duty location - 240 hours, foreign duty location - 360 hours, or TSES position - 720 hours).
- ★TSA will not make a monetary payment for any leave forfeited under these circumstances.
Personality Fit
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