Career Opportunities in Marine Border Security

Marine Interdiction Specialist

Protecting America's national borders, Marine Interdiction Specialists work in collaboration with an elite team of highly trained professionals to ensure security while facilitating lawful international travel and trade. A career in law enforcement offering great pay, benefits, and job stability is now available to those with Merchant Mariner Credentials.

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

• Monitor behavior patterns and activities of suspect persons, vehicles, or vessels believed to be engaged in illegal activities.
• Interpret radar data to calculate appropriate intercept while tracking vessels and people to a successful interdiction.
• Search persons, vessels, baggage, and cargo for contraband or weapons incidental to detention or arrest.
• Collect, refine, and analyze strategic and tactical intelligence.

This GS-11 grade level position requires a qualifying Merchant Mariner Credential. To qualify for the GS-11 grade level, candidates must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, performing duties such as independently applying advanced skills in controlling / commanding law enforcement scenes and conducting investigative inquiries using various techniques.