CBP Officer – Homeland Security Jobs


Website U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Position Summary:

As our nation navigates the COVID-19 pandemic, CBP is committed to delivering our mission to safeguard America’s borders and enable legitimate trade and travel. Staffing mission critical positions remains a high priority. Be reassured that CBP is still hiring, despite potential hiring process step delays due to restrictions to in-person activities.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Applying a broad range of knowledge in completing the initial interactions and a more specific application in increasingly complex determinations as examinations progress
  • Enforcing and facilitating the examination continuum that typically includes preprimary/risk assessment, primary examination, secondary examination (including disposition for enforcement and compliance), outbound, registration, exit controls, and post disposition
  • Applying a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of program related legislation and regulations
  • Applying behavioral and cultural analysis, and decision-making skills in order to perform the risk assessment required to release travelers and shipments and to identify those requiring further scrutiny
  • Providing a broad and extensive knowledge of laws and procedures, as well as changing initiatives and threats
  • Ensuring the gathering and analysis of information from all available sources such as intelligence reports, and various databases
  • Developing, planning and participating in tactical operations, such as pre-primary blitzes, intensive boarding’s, and roving
  • Reviewing and analyzing carriers’, importers’, and exporters’ manifests, permits, certificates, entries, invoices, and associated documents to determine the admissibility of merchandise or cargo, and levels of risk for possible violations of laws and threats to national security, economic and agricultural interests

Required Education & Experience:

  • Expert skill and ability to collect and analyze information from a wide variety of sources to effectively identify known or potential terrorists or instruments of terror.
  • You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this position
  • You must possess a valid driver’s license
  • Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service
  • You must have taken the CBP Officer Promotional Assessment (including In-Basket component) and have a passing Total Score
  • Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing to manage a comprehensive national program, to meet and deal with the traveling public, to explain and interpret program related laws and regulations, to prepare thorough and comprehensive programmatic reports and to coordinate a variety of activities simultaneously.
  • CBP follows the DHS Drug-Free Workplace Plan for drug testing procedures
  • Ability to effectively apply behavioral and cultural analysis and decision-making skills in, order to perform risk assessments required to travelers and shipments and to identify those requiring further scrutiny.
  • Primary U.S. residency for at least three of the last five years (additional details below)
  • You may be required to pass a background investigation and/or polygraph