Transportation Security Specialist - Los Angeles, United States - Department Of Homeland Security

Description

Summary

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.

Duties

This Transportation Security Specialist - Explosives (TSS-E) position is located at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serving as a key component of a multi-layered security approach.
• Applying experience and technical knowledge of explosives to assess threats.
• Educating the screening workforce in the detection of threats.
• Supporting explosive vulnerability assessments in all modes of transportation.
• Responding to and assessing all unresolved checkpoint and checked baggage alarms involving possible explosives, IED components or actual IEDs, rendering a final decision on alarm resolution.
• Assessing the interrelationships between initiators, power supplies, and chemicals. Determining if devices are improvised explosives, commercial explosives, or mixed explosives (fuel mixtures).
• Deploying in support of risk mitigation efforts to deter, detect, and prevent the introduction of IEDs, IED components or other deadly or dangerous items into the airport environment.
• Participating with evaluation teams in conducting covert drills to determine effectiveness of the training programs, recommending individuals remediation, and identifying potential security vulnerabilities.
• Mentoring and training the front line screening workforce to increase their operational knowledge of explosives and IED components.