Personnel Security Specialist - Senior

Personnel Security Specialist - Senior at Amentum

Amentum is a leading provider of enduring support for the essential missions of the U.S. government, its allied partners and international organizations. With over 60 years of experience, Amentum supports the execution of complex and critical missions by providing global logistics and stability operations, technical services and national security solutions to customers around the world. Amentum has a workforce of approximately 50,000 people in over 80 countries on all seven continents and is headquartered in Chantilly, VA.

Job Description

The PSS provides support for security assessment investigations, including background investigations, periodic reinvestigations, and security clearances. Employment suitability determinations and continuous evaluation of employees to ensure eligibility for employment. This position is contingent upon several items including, but not limited to, contract award, security processing, ability to pass a CI polygraph and position availability, which may lead to a lengthy hiring process.

• Independently develops various types of manuals, forms, instructions, and the like, to facilitate operation of the FBI Security Program. Participates in special projects such as planning the implementation of new or revised programs.
• Conducts exhaustive and extensive checks in accordance with the FISs, Federal guidelines, policies and procedures. Demonstrates innovative and imaginative approaches to problem solving that adds to the quality and quantity of relevant data recovered in assigned cases.
• Takes direct part in the administration of the FBI Security Program by participating in the direction of highly sensitive and complex security assessment investigations conducted by FBI Field Offices and rendering appropriate adjudication recommendations. Serves as the technical expert in one or more security programs, assists in formulating and implementing policies and procedures.
• Requests, receives, scrutinizes and analyzes FBI Investigative files and related material to determine, isolate, develop and extract identifying or linking information, matching records, and viable avenues of investigative pursuit which could affect an individual's eligibility for a security clearance.
• Analyzes material to detect misrepresentations of facts, criminal or suspicious conduct, signs of mental illness, associations with hostile intelligence individuals or organizations, or fragments of information indicating risk to security.
• Performs critical analysis of incoming material to determine merit for granting, continuing, or revoking security clearances and access authorizations.
• Provides on–the–job training and guidance to lower-level specialists; assists in resolving issues during processing of cases; reviews cases and routine correspondence prepared by specialists for transmittal authorization by Government lead.
• Prepares in-depth summaries of data and composes necessary correspondence for initiations of investigations; defines security vulnerabilities and provides recommendations and leads for investigation initiation.
• Coordinates with FBI Divisions on foreign nexus/concerns to inform adjudicative determinations.
• Provides high‑risk analysis of investigations to support Government-led decisions on security and suitability.
• Evaluates reports and records to recommend suitability/security determinations and ensure data adequacy and authenticity.
• Recommends and coordinates the execution of polygraph examinations and/or interviews as required, with detailed justification and instructions for follow-on actions.
• Correlates data to prepare formal analyses of security concerns, vulnerabilities, risks, and resolutions, and to advise on adjudication decisions for security clearances and access authorizations.
• Coordinates investigative activity and information gathering with FBI offices, other government agencies, and private industry; identifies trends and keeps the Government lead informed.
• Advises on follow-on actions and may conduct security briefings as needed; ensures proper debriefings for FBI employees and contractors when required.
• Processes assignments independently…