Personnel Security Specialist - Mid

About the role

Amentum is hiring a Personnel Security Specialist (mid level) to support security assessment investigations, including background investigations, periodic reinvestigations and security clearances, as well as employment suitability determinations and continuous evaluation of employees. The role involves reviewing and analysing FBI investigative files and requests, and works in a traditional office environment.

Key responsibilities

• Review and analyse requests for investigations covering security clearances, reciprocity, requirements, violations and assessments, including FBI investigative files and material on reliability, trustworthiness and loyalty.
• Identify deliberate misrepresentation, criminal or immoral conduct, mental health concerns and links to hostile intelligence organisations, and assess whether a subject may be a security risk.
• Conduct PSIs and background investigations (BIs) as determined during the investigation, in line with FBI HQ requests, and prepare detailed analyses, recommendations and remedial actions.
• Conduct security briefings on Security Awareness and Hostile Threat, and revise them according to security requirements.
• Review personal history statements before background investigations, draft summary sheets and evaluations of adverse information, and recommend adjudication outcomes for FBI employment and security clearances.
• Review SF-86 and SF-85P questionnaires, verify application information, retrieve data from credit bureaus and local agency checks, and prioritise assignments to meet deadlines.

Required profile

• Top-Secret US Government clearance (US citizenship required).
• Bachelor's degree with seven years' experience, or associate's degree with nine years' experience, in personnel security investigation or investigative analysis.
• Experience interpreting government and commercial database checks, analysing investigative reports and applying adjudicative standards.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Required skills

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Federal LE and IC IT systems for automated record checks
• Database searches and personnel security documentation management
• Desired: knowledge of DOJ and FBI regulations, FIS, SEADs, Executive Orders and US CFR

Salary range: $70,000 - $80,000.