Total 3 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in Houston

• Utilizes office policies and procedures to effectively perform administrative duties.
• Tracks legal cases concerning improper recruiting practices and adverse personnel actions.
• Prepare information for distribution to staff within assigned Brigade.
• Monitors progress of legal cases and actions throughout the Brigade.
• Conduct follow-ups to ensure timely movement on legal actions.
• Review actions to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Composes routine correspondence on behalf of the Command Judge Advocate Office.
• Reviewing outgoing correspondence for grammatical accuracy.

This Human Resources Specialist position is located George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Applying employee relations principles, practices, legal and regulatory requirements, and analytical skills sufficient to advise management about appropriate disciplinary or other corrective techniques that are responsive to a range of conduct and performance problems.
• Providing advice and assistance to management regarding appropriate disciplinary and adverse actions.
• Identifying and seeking guidance on fitness for duty and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) issues.
• Applying knowledge of guidance, policies, principles, and practices related to employee conduct, performance, and dispute resolution.
• Analyzing a variety of employee conduct and performance-based problems.
• Providing ongoing HR services to managers and employees including initiating, tracking, and following up on cases and actions to ensure timely completion and regulatory compliance, and resolving recurring case specific problems or issues independently when applicable guidelines are available.
• Serving as the resident HR consultant by providing guidance on HR matters; responding to routine HR inquiry actions; ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies, and consistency with merit system principles; communicating changes to HR procedures and policies.
• Undertaking extensive research and analysis and coordinating with OHC senior specialist to ensure the most recent guidance is applied when making technical decisions or advising managers, staff, and employees.
• Providing guidance to junior staff as appropriate to accomplish work.
• Identifying and proposing technically sound and administratively compliant solutions to a range of recurring issues that require considerable judgment to ensure that recommendations and approaches that best meet operational needs.

This Assistant Federal Security Director - Generalist position is located at William P. Hobby Airport (HOU), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected, you will be responsible for supporting the Federal Security Director (FSD) by providing day to day direction for airport security and operations at airports with multiple checkpoints and a workforce. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing support in the following areas: tactical planning, execution and operating management for coordinated security services.
• Participating in briefings concerning sensitive security information.
• Serving as a Principal Advisor to the Federal Security Director (FSD) on all matters concerning operational support.
• Developing, planning, coordinating and managing support operations that include customer service/stakeholder programs, training and engineering services.
• Conferring with FSD and/or appropriate staff personnel to outline work plans, to provide technical advice to resolve problems, to review status reports and to modify schedules in order to meet workload fluctuations.
• Organizing and implementing the Federal Security Crisis Management Response Plan.
• Implementing performance and enhancement of security and screening standards for airport employees and passengers, oversight of passenger, baggage and air cargo security screening, airport security risk assessments, security technology implementation and maintenance within established guidelines; crisis management, data and communications network protection and recovery as it impacts on Federal security responsibilities, employee security awareness training; and coordination of applicable Federal, state and local emergency services and law enforcement.
• Assisting with providing guidance in monitoring and evaluating existing security operations and related programs and in developing and implementing innovative approaches for long term improvements.
• Making major recommendations concerning significant internal and external program policy issues affecting the overall operation of the airport.
• Interfacing with individuals from Headquarters and other airport operations to assure effective program management.