Total 114 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in Palm Bay, Florida

This position may be filled at either GG-07 or GG-09 grade level, please indicate the grade for which you want to be considered. Incumbent may be advanced non-competitively to the established target grade upon meeting developmental benchmarks, performance requirements, and other requirements, as applicable established for the career program or specifically for the incumbent.

As an Investigator you will be responsible for the following duties:
-Assist with conducting Federal Personnel Background Investigations, many of which are sensitive or controversial, where allegations, hearsay information, or other vague or intangible information of an adverse nature exist.
-Evaluate individual's trustworthiness for access to classified information, placement in a sensitive position, retention in the military services, or placement in Federal employment.
-Assist with collecting and developing information from a variety of sources.
-Prepare reports of investigation in accordance with DOD guidelines and instructions.

• Visit field sites to active construction sites and work with field personnel in project offices to assist in solving unforeseen problems related to soil mechanics encountered during construction.
• Conduct scientific studies of subsurface materials for use in determining the suitability of these materials for the construction of embankment structures.
• Perform engineering foundation analyses including shallow and deep foundation and determine best system to be used for structure foundation.
• Review and provide guidance on work completed by others to ensure technical accuracy, adequacy, and completeness.
• Review all applicable sections of reports prepared by AE firms to assure compliance with all Corps of Engineers regulations.

• Visit field sites to active construction sites and work with field personnel in project offices to assist in solving unforeseen problems related to soil mechanics encountered during construction.
• Conduct scientific studies of subsurface materials for use in determining the suitability of these materials for the construction of embankment structures.
• Perform engineering foundation analyses including shallow and deep foundation and determine best system to be used for structure foundation.
• Review and provide guidance on work completed by others to ensure technical accuracy, adequacy, and completeness.
• Review all applicable sections of reports prepared by AE firms to assure compliance with all Corps of Engineers regulations.

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Salary Information: The salary range for Palm Springs, CA (PSP - Palm Springs International Airport) is $46,020 to $64,224 or $22.05 to $30.77 per hour and includes locality pay of 35.84%.

This Transportation Security Officer position is located in Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Transportation Security Officer (TSOs) within Security Operations (SO), you will provide security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft in a courteous and professional manner. Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and on passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft.
• Performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers (e.g., pat-downs, search of property, etc.), conducting bag searches and lifting/carrying bags, bins, and property weighing up to 50lbs.
• Controlling terminal entry and exit points.
• Interacting with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries.
• Maintaining focus and awareness while working in a stressful environment which includes noise from alarms, machinery and people, crowd distractions, time pressure, and disruptive and angry passengers, in order to preserve the professional ability to identify and locate potentially life threatening or mass destruction devices, and to make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills, necessary to mitigate actual and potential security threats, by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches. This may include application of risk-based security screening protocols that vary based on program requirements.
• Retaining and implementing knowledge of all applicable Standard Operating Procedures, demonstrating responsible and dependable behavior, and is open to change and adapts to new information or unexpected obstacles.

• You will advise the Commodore, Commanding Officers, Officers-in-Charge, and Wing Staff to include subordinate activities on all security matters.
• You will provide all aspects of leadership, training, and guidance to personnel assigned to the Security Office.
• You will write and refine local policies and procedures for all matters under CPRW-11 SSO purview in accordance with DoD and Navy directives.
• You will prepare Construction Security Plans to include required accreditation documentation to include photographic records of pertinent areas of security as identified in ICD 705.
• You will be responsible for ensuring security checks are performed on construction personnel in cooperation with Base Security.
• You will ensure all aspects of the SCI Personnel Security Program are executed, to include, but not limited to, nomination interviews.
• You will conduct of SCI security indoctrinations, briefings, and debriefings; execute and maintain SCI Non-Disclosure Statements and Non-Disclosure Agreements.
• You will oversee CPRW-11 SCIF spaces to ensure proper SCI storage is IAW DoD and DoN Instructions.
• You will manage the control, transmittal, transportation, packaging, safeguarding, and destruction of SCI material in accordance with regulations.
• You will oversee and advise investigations of all unauthorized disclosures of SCI information.

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Salary Information: The salary range for Fort Myers, FL (RSW - Southwest Florida International) is $41,316 to $55,231 or $19.80 to $26.46 per hour and includes locality pay of 16.82%.

This Transportation Security Officer position is located in Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Transportation Security Officer (TSOs) within Security Operations (SO), you will provide security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft in a courteous and professional manner. Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Operating various screening equipment and technology to identify dangerous objects in baggage, cargo and on passengers, and preventing those objects from being transported onto aircraft.
• Performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers (e.g., pat-downs, search of property, etc.), conducting bag searches and lifting/carrying bags, bins, and property weighing up to 50lbs.
• Controlling terminal entry and exit points.
• Interacting with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries.
• Maintaining focus and awareness while working in a stressful environment which includes noise from alarms, machinery and people, crowd distractions, time pressure, and disruptive and angry passengers, in order to preserve the professional ability to identify and locate potentially life threatening or mass destruction devices, and to make effective decisions in both crisis and routine situations.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills, necessary to mitigate actual and potential security threats, by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches. This may include application of risk-based security screening protocols that vary based on program requirements.
• Retaining and implementing knowledge of all applicable Standard Operating Procedures, demonstrating responsible and dependable behavior, and is open to change and adapts to new information or unexpected obstacles.

This Human Resources Specialist position is located Orlando International Airport (MCO), 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 Supervisory Transportation Security Officer position is located at Miami International Airport (MIA), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Supervisory Transportation Security Officer (STSO), you will be responsible for mitigating actual and potential threats against civil aviation and other transportation modes. You will also perform and supervise in your area of specialty, which may include Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) and Lead Transportation Security Officers (LTSOs) in the performance of all security functions related to the screening of people, property, and cargo through the use and application of procedures, techniques, and technology. In addition, you will make independent, security-based decisions using intelligence, critical thinking, experience, observation, and passenger engagement. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Conducting and supervising subordinate employees in conducting pre-board security screening of persons, their carry-on and checked baggage/cargo.
• Overseeing screening checkpoint(s) and/or baggage screening operations on a day-to-day basis to include equipment, personnel, and the scheduling and rotation of personnel.
• Participating in the development of new policies and procedures, and recommending changes in policy and procedures based on observation of work, as required.
• Participating in the development of strategic planning initiatives, workforce planning, succession planning initiatives, and other reports and documents for TSA and superiors.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills necessary to mitigate security threats by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches.
• Preparing various types of communications such as morning briefings, checkpoint logs, reports, and documents that are germane to the work performed.
• Developing incident information and reports for Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and superiors.
• Serving as a member of the National Screening Force.

This position is located in the Southeast Sunbelt Region (R4) within Atlanta, GA or Fort Lauderdale, FL. The incumbent will be expected to report to a GSA facility in the Southeast Sunbelt Region at least 2x per pay period.

• Provides policy oversight and expertise for specialists assigned major capital lease projects to ensure customer satisfaction and attainment of all organizational and project goals and objectives.
• Ensures projects are completed in accordance with GSA policies and ensures all reasonable steps are taken to ensure projects are completed within each project’s budget and schedule. 
• Identifies practices and procedures which deviate from prescribed policies and procedures, directs appropriate corrective actions, and monitors its progress.
• Anticipates and resolves project related problems to the maximum extent possible within vested authority, negotiates resolution of problems not within the authority of specialists negotiating and administering contracts related to these projects, and develops contingency plans to mitigate the impact of unresolved problems.
• Assures timely accomplishment of all tasks assigned to specialists, assuring each specialist has an integral role in developing the final product or service, articulates and communicates to specialists’ problems to be solved or program issues under review, ensures the organization’s vision is integrated into the project goals.
• Provides expert advice on specific tasks and makes available written instructions, reference materials, and relevant background material, maintains current knowledge and answers questions from specialists assigned to projects on procedures, policies and directives, as needed.
• Serve on a variety of committees and task forces involving persons internal and external to GSA at a national level.
• Responsibility for the business management of the most complex, long range (3-5 years), lease projects from the preliminary planning stage through the development of the Solicitation for Offers, negotiation objectives, source selection criteria, and other elements comprising all aspects of the capital projects. Assignments encompass responsibilities such as planning, organizing, controlling, coordinating, reviewing and approving lease procurements and related work performed by other GSA organizations.
• Facilitates the effort and expertise of numerous staff members within various disciplines. Works with personnel in various disciplines including but not limited to project development, building management, realty, engineering and architecture, construction, contracting, lease budget and finance, security, quality assurance, environmental, historic preservation, valuation, and business and government management.

• You will provide expert technical advice, guidance, and recommendations to management and other technical specialists on IT issues.
• You will be responsible for the overall implementation and operation of an Information Assurance program.
• You will implement SOP to ensure all IT assets are identified and accounted for.
• You will exercise technical and administrative supervision over both military and civilian personnel in the IT department to include daily operations, evaluation and overall department management.
• You will report and document all security related events.

• You will overhaul, repair, modify and participate in the test and refueling of nuclear reactor plant systems and associated components.
• You will install, adjusts set and repair or replace, various controls and regulation of safety devices such as meters, gages, valves, switches and automatic alarms.
• You will perform on-the­ site machining of parts, test the operations of machinery, and repair valves (primary and secondary), pumps, actuators, operatives, etc.
• You will use various portable machine tools, such as seal weld cutting machines, portable milling machines, facing machines, and drills.
• You will use precision measuring instruments as height gages, depth gages, calipers, verniers, various types of micrometers, and protractors.
• You will be required to read the work from blueprints, sketches, and specifications in determining critical dimensions and key reference points.
• You will examine and troubleshoot to determine the extent of repairs required, materials or parts needed, and to estimate the time required to complete repairs.
• You will disassemble, repair, and rebuild components and assemblies such as shafts, propellers, rudders, engines, and sea valves.
• You will operate machinery and equipment for launching systems, torpedo tubes, periscopes, antennas, sonar, and radar equipment; and other shipboard equipment such as air compressors, feed pumps, condensers, and air ejectors.
• You will independently dismantle, move, and relocate various types of submarine and shipboard machinery such as turbines, generators, diesel engines, and their accessories or install new machinery.

As a, SUPERVISORY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY SPECIALIST, GS-0132-12, you will oversee all the State's ARNG Intelligence and Security activities, based on State force structure, equipment, and missions, which may include any or all of the following; Intelligence programs and General Intelligence Security functional areas: Personnel Security (PERSEC), Information Security (INFOSEC), Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Foreign Disclosure, Communication Security (COMSEC) oversight that includes Department of the Army Cryptological Access Program (DACAP), Security Education and Training Awareness (SETA), and Industrial Security (ISP),The Army Language Program (TALP), Foundry Intelligence Training Program, Threat Awareness and Reporting Program (TARP), and Intelligence Oversight (IO). Develops, interprets, and oversees the administration of state policies, rules, and procedures adapted from policies prescribed by the ARNG, Department of the Army, Department of Defense, and/or other federal laws or regulations. Develops and promulgates short and long-range State intelligence plans and projects future requirements. Supports subordinate units and intelligence sections in developing training plans that support MI technical proficiency. Integrates, as applicable, the ARNG Funds Reimbursable Authority (FRA) and Federated Intelligence Program (FIP), Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) missions into the training, readiness, and retention plan for State Army Intelligence personnel.

This Supervisor Transportation Security Officer position is located at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a Supervisory Transportation Security Officer (STSO), you will be responsible for mitigating actual and potential threats against civil aviation and other transportation modes. You will also perform and supervise in your area of specialty, which may include Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) and Lead Transportation Security Officers (LTSOs) in the performance of all security functions related to the screening of people, property, and cargo through the use and application of procedures, techniques, and technology. In addition, you will make independent, security-based decisions using intelligence, critical thinking, experience, observation, and passenger engagement. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Conducting and supervising subordinate employees in conducting pre-board security screening of persons, their carry-on and checked baggage/cargo.
• Overseeing screening checkpoint(s) and/or baggage screening operations on a day-to-day basis to include equipment, personnel, and the scheduling and rotation of personnel.
• Participating in the development of new policies and procedures, and recommending changes in policy and procedures based on observation of work, as required.
• Participating in the development of strategic planning initiatives, workforce planning, succession planning initiatives, and other reports and documents for TSA and superiors.
• Engaging in continuous development of critical thinking skills necessary to mitigate security threats by identifying, evaluating, and applying appropriate situational options and approaches.
• Preparing various types of communications such as morning briefings, checkpoint logs, reports, and documents that are germane to the work performed.
• Developing incident information and reports for Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and superiors.
• Serving as a member of the National Screening Force.

This Supervisory Human Resources Specialist position is located Miami International Airport (MIA), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Functions as the airport subject matter expert (SME) on human capital core functions to ensure compliance with the Office of Human Capital (OHC) directives, policies, guidance, procedures and requirements.
• Provides advice and guidance to junior specialists, professionals, managers, employees and external representatives to resolve problems not always susceptible to treatment by standards.
• Identifies and proposes solutions to complex issues and concerns where previous studies and established techniques require modification and adaptation.
• Reviews policies and precedents in order to make a recommendation for applying them to sensitive or controversial cases or problems.
• Conducts research and evaluates options for use in implementing OHC programs and policies.
• Uses human resources expertise to recommend best option and coordinate or direct program/policy implementation.
• Advises management regarding current policies and procedures.
• Provides sound interpretation and guidance regarding the application of HR related policies and procedures.
• Manages allocated resources (staff, budget, equipment, etc.) to accomplish work and objectives of the component, program or project. Requests additional resources, as necessary.
• Contributes to the planning process for budgetary, equipment/supplies and human resources needs, as assigned.
• Applies expert knowledge of the technical aspects of the work directed (employee relations principles and practices, appeals and grievance processes, OWCP, position management, staffing, human resources concepts, and best practices) using knowledge of case laws (MSPB) and precedents, government regulations, executive orders and agency rules.
• Serves as the Employee Relations and OWCP consultant to the FSD and other management members; coordinates with other HR functions; and analyzes and works to resolve particularly complex and sensitive problems and issues.
• Provides advice and assistance to management regarding appropriate disciplinary and adverse actions. Identifies and provides guidance on fitness for duty and FMLA issues.

This Human Resources Specialist position is located Orlando International Airport (MCO), 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.