Marine Interdiction Agent

About the role

AMO is actively seeking applicants to fill full-time security-based positions with the nation’s largest law enforcement organization charged with maintaining the security of our national borders while facilitating lawful international travel and trade.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining law enforcement scenes independently, including conducting searches, making arrests, processing arrests and seizure of evidence and property.
• Interpreting radar data to calculate appropriate intercept while tracking vessels and people to a successful interdiction.
• Searching persons, vessels, baggage, and cargo for contraband or weapons incidental to detention or arrest.
• Collecting, refining, and analyzing strategic and tactical intelligence.

Qualifications

• A minimum qualification requires a qualifying Merchant Mariner Credential.
• Education Substitution for experience: A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, three (3) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or LL.M.
• Combining Experience and Education: A combination of successfully completed post-bachelors’ education and experience.
• U.S. Coast Guard Issued Merchant Mariner Credentials (MMC) must be submitted at time of application.

Benefits

• Salary range: $105,931 - $191,284 per year based on grade level and duty location.
• Recruitment Incentive: One-time payout of $10,000 after completing FLETC (1 year service agreement needed).
• Retirement benefits: Participation in the Thrift Savings Plan, a retirement plan akin to a traditional and ROTH 401(k).

Requirements

• Citizenship: U.S. Citizen.
• Residency: Primary U.S. residency for at least three of the last five years.
• Age Requirement: Must be referred for selection to the Border Patrol Agent position before reaching 40th birthday.
• Veterans' Preference Eligibility: Veterans' Preference Eligibility may be applicable.
• Training: Required to successfully complete the training requirement as a condition of employment.
• Travel: May be expected to travel for this position based on operational needs.