Transportation Security Specialist

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.

This Transportation Security Specialist position is located in the Transportation Security Operations Center (TSOC) or the Systems Operation Control Section (SOCS), Flight Operations Branch, Flight Operations Division, Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service (LE/FAMS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include, but are not limited to: Assisting and advising management in the execution of all operational matters and procedures. Drafting and distributing reports associated with the TSA response to emergency events in the transportation domain. Collecting, correlating and characterizing of all such events to include all security modes and inter-agency/organizational coordination. Creating and disseminating daily operations briefs, required reports and notifications, operational messages, and information papers, as required. Communicating with other agencies and TSOC or SOCS components on issues and concerns in an area of responsibility. Recommends responses to events/crisis and makes analytical input on potential or emerging threats so the watch team can deliver information to the appropriate decision making level. Analyzing characterizations of events and makes recommendations for action and internal resource deployment to TSOC or SOCS leadership based on overall understanding of pertinent guidance material and nature of events. Contributing to training exercises providing; input during exercise planning, execution, post-exercise review and evaluation. The major duties described above reflect the full performance level of this position. Typically, the lower pay bands (G & H Band) perform the same duties but will receive more guidance and training; and/or projects/work assignments may be less complex.