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Job Name: Transportation Security Officer
Full and Part Time Positions Available

Job Detail: Reports to Screening Supervisor

Job Requisite: Number: 600001
Closing Date: On-going

Description: Perform a variety of duties related to providing frontline security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft.

NOTE: This is a non-critical sensitive National Security position that requires fingerprints, photographs, and completion of the appropriate paperwork. The background investigation and credit check are also required. If your credit check reveals that you have defaulted on $5,000 or more in bad debt (e.g., accounts in collection, repossession, or foreclosure; excluding certain circumstances of bankruptcy), owe any delinquent Federal or State taxes, or owe any past due child support payments, you will not be eligible for this position. (The term “bad debt” does not include normal credit card debt or loans unless they are defaulted for a period of 180 days or more.)

Tasks

Transportation Security Officers will perform a variety of duties related to providing security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft. You will be responsible for identifying dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and/or on passengers; and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft. You are required to perform various tasks such as wanding, pat down searches, operation of x-ray machines, lifting of baggage (up to 70 pounds), and screening and ticket review using electronic and imaging equipment. As an Transportation Security Officer, you will perform passenger and baggage screening. You are expected to perform these duties in a courteous and professional manner.

  • Continuously and effectively interact with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries in a reasonable tone and manner
  • Maintain focus and awareness within an environment containing numerous distractions, people, and noise.
  • Stand and remain standing for periods up to 3 hours without sitting.
  • Lift and/or assist another individual to lift (from the ground) an object weighing 70 pounds.
  • Work within a stressful environment, which includes noise from alarms, machinery, and people, distractions, time pressure, disruptive and angry passengers, and the requirement to identify and locate potentially life-threatening devices and devices intended on creating massive destruction.
  • Make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.

Work Schedule

Must be able to work various shifts, irregular hours, nights and weekend shifts, changing shifts, holidays,
extended shifts, and split shifts. Specific work schedules will be determined by the airport operational needs.

Qualifications/Requirements

  • You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National; AND
  • You must have a high school diploma, GED or equivalent; OR at least one year of full-time work experience in security work, aviation screener work, or x-ray technician work.

In order to successfully perform this work, security screeners must possess the following
knowledge, skills, and abilities:

  • English Proficiency (e.g., reading, writing, speaking, listening)
  • Mental Abilities (e.g., visual observation and identification, mental rotation)
  • Interpersonal Skills (e.g., customer service, dependability)
  • Work Values (e.g., responsibility, honesty, integrity)
  • Physical Abilities (e.g., repeatedly lifting and carrying baggage up to 70 lbs, identifying objects by touch)

All Transportation Security Officers must meet the following standards:

  • Distant vision correctable to 20/30 or better in the best eye and 20/100 or better in the worse eye
  • Near vision correctable to 20/40 or better binocular
  • Color perception (e.g., red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple, brown, black, white, gray) note: color filters (e.g., contact lenses) for enhancing color discrimination are prohibited.
  • Hearing as measured by audiometry cannot exceed: a) an average hearing loss of 30 decibels (ANSI) at 500, 1000, 2000, and 3000Hz in each ear, b) single readings of 50 decibels at 2000 or 3000Hz in each ear, c) single reading of 55 decibels at 4000Hz in each ear.
  • Adequate joint mobility, dexterity and range of motion, strength, and stability (to lift and move at least 70 pounds), as well as a complete medical evaluation including cardiovascular system, hypertension, etc.

Conditions of Employment

To be considered for employment, you must be able to:

  • Demonstrate daily a fitness for duty without impairment due to illegal drugs, sleep deprivation, medication, or alcohol;
  • Work various shifts, irregular hours, nights and weekend shifts, changing shifts, holidays, extended shifts, and split shifts. Specific work schedules will be determined by the airport operational needs;
  • Pass Drug and Alcohol screening; and
  • pass a background investigation, including a criminal check and a credit check.
  • Continued employment is contingent upon passing recurrent training and certification exams on a periodic basis.

FirstLine Transportation Security is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to non-merit factors as race, color, religion, gender, handicap, age, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, martial status, non-disqualifying disabilities, membership or non-membership in an employee organization, personal favoritism, protected genetic information, or status as a parent. FirstLine does have
requirements to provide same-gender screening to travelers to protect their privacy.

If you are a qualified candidate with a disability and you wish to apply, you may call the FirstLine Recruitment Center at 1-866-277-0101 or for TTY access, 1-866-277-0889 for information and/or assistance.

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General Benefits Information

  • Starting Salary: $28,080
  • Medical Benefits
  • Dental Insurance
  • Basic Life/AD&D
  • Optional Life
  • Voluntary AD&D
  • Vision
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Paid Short and Long Term Disability
  • Holidays – 10 paid
  • Vacation Time – 2 weeks after 1 year, 3 weeks after 5 years
  • Paid Personal Days – 6 annually
  • Tuition Reimbursement up to $10,000 Reimbursement
  • 401K Savings Plan
  • Paid Parking
  • Paid Training
  • Uniforms Supplied Free of Charge

Specific information regarding benefits will be provided at New Hire Orientation.

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