Lead Transportation Security Officer

Transportation Security Administration; Amarillo (TX); On-site; USD 62,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Transportation Security Administration at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (AMA) is seeking a Lead Transportation Security Officer (LTSO). You will lead at least three TSOs and trainees, allocate workloads, and ensure adherence to TSA directives while maintaining security standards in a high-stakes environment.

The role involves supervising security screening procedures, incident reporting, and coordinating resources.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising security personnel or teams.
• Ability to train team members and manage workflow.
• Experience in security screening or DHS-related roles is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead at least three TSOs and trainee/apprentice level TSOs.
• Identify, distribute, and balance workloads and tasks.
• Implement security screening procedures in line with TSA directives.
• Assist with investigations and prepare incident reports.
• Train team members and monitor progress, communicating needs to supervisors.

Skills

Leadership

Team coordination

Training

Job description

• Hiring Agency: Transportation Security Administration
• Department: Department of Homeland Security

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.

Key Responsibilities

This Lead Transportation Security Officer position is located at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (AMA), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Lead Transportation Security Officer (LTSO), you will be responsible for leading at least three full-performance level Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) and, as assigned, trainee and apprentice level TSOs.

As an LTSO, you will identify, distribute, and balance workloads and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow and skill level. You will make adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities. Duties include but are not limited to: Providing input to supervisors and managers concerning a variety of human resources matters including, but not limited to, employee performance, promotions, reassignments, awards, etc.

Implementing security screening procedures in accordance with TSA objectives and directives. Assisting with investigations of incidents, and preparing incident reports or other documents that convey required information. Responding to breaches of security and emergency situations.

Training team members, monitoring and reporting on the status and progress of work, and representing the team in communications with the supervisor or manager for the purpose of obtaining resources (e.g., computer hardware and software, etc.). The duties of this position involve touching and patting down the bodies of airline passengers. Due to privacy interests and the sensitive nature of these duties, the TSA requires a same-gender pat down of passengers.

Accordingly, TSA must ensure that it employs a certain ratio of male and female LTSOs to perform passenger screening. This vacancy is seeking a Female candidate to maintain required ratio.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $61722 – $80243/yr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-06.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.

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