How do they match: Transportation Security Screeners

  • Flight Security Specialist
  • Notification Specialist

  • Conduct screening of passengers, baggage, or cargo to ensure compliance with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regulations. May operate basic security equipment such as x-ray machines and hand wands at screening checkpoints.

  • Challenge suspicious people, requesting their badges and asking what their business is in a particular areas.
  • Check passengers' tickets to ensure that they are valid, and to determine whether passengers have designations that require special handling, such as providing photo identification.
  • Confiscate dangerous items and hazardous materials found in opened bags and turn them over to airlines for disposal.
  • Inform other screeners when baggage should not be opened because it might contain explosives.

  • Determine operational procedures.