TSA SPP Transition Lead - Airport Operations

Culmen-International-LL; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k plan

Paid holidays

Life insurance

Job summary

Culmen International seeks experienced TSA SPP Transition Managers to lead airport-wide transitions of screening operations across the United States. You will manage planning, onboarding, badging, and readiness to ensure Day 1 continuity of security operations.

The role requires coordinating with TSA, airport authorities, and Culmen teams, while navigating TSA vetting timelines and large workforce transitions. Extensive CONUS travel is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex workforce, contract, airport, security, or Federal program transitions.
• Experience coordinating recruiting, onboarding, training, credentialing, logistics, and operational-readiness activities.
• Strong project-management, scheduling, risk-management, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Ability to manage multiple interdependent workstreams against fixed operational deadlines.
• U.S. Citizen or U.S. National and ability to satisfy TSA suitability and access requirements.
• Ability to travel extensively within CONUS during transition periods.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute airport-specific SPP transition plans and readiness milestones.
• Coordinate closely with TSA, airport authorities, incumbent personnel, recruiting, HR, security, training, operations, and Culmen corporate functions.
• Lead incumbent workforce outreach and retention activities.
• Manage recruiting and onboarding of new personnel while accounting for TSA vetting and background-investigation timelines.
• Coordinate airport badging, credentialing, uniforms, training, equipment, facilities, systems access, and employee orientation.
• Integrate classroom training, certification, and OJT schedules with staffing requirements.
• Maintain transition risk, action-item, staffing, and readiness trackers and escalate issues requiring leadership intervention.
• Develop contingency and surge plans to protect staffing and security effectiveness.
• Validate operational readiness before assumption of screening responsibilities.
• Support post-transition stabilization and handoff to the permanent Task Order management team.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Scheduling

Risk management

Travel readiness

US Citizenship

Job description

Culmen International seeks experienced TSA SPP Transition Managers to lead airport-wide transitions of screening operations across the United States. You will manage planning, onboarding, badging, and readiness to ensure Day 1 continuity of security operations.

The role requires coordinating with TSA, airport authorities, and Culmen teams, while navigating TSA vetting timelines and large workforce transitions. Extensive CONUS travel is expected.