[Hiring] Technical Team Lead @Thermo Systems

Role Description

The Technical Team Lead is a people leader responsible for the performance, development, workload, and successful delivery of a technical team. The role sets clear expectations, provides regular feedback and coaching, manages employee performance, and ensures employees have the direction, resources, and development needed to succeed.

Technical Team Leads work closely with senior technical contributors to provide appropriate technical direction, mentoring, and support to their teams and are accountable for addressing quality or capability issues when they arise. They manage staffing and competing project needs, solve routine team and delivery problems, and escalate issues appropriately when additional authority or expertise is required.

The role is primarily focused on leading people and team delivery but may continue to perform technical or project work when appropriate. Individual technical work must remain secondary to the responsibility for effectively leading and developing the team.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or other relevant technical education in controls, automation, electrical, electronics, engineering technology, design, information systems, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 7+ years of relevant technical experience in control-system startup, commissioning, integration, troubleshooting, panel design, or related automation work, with demonstrated capability and judgment consistent with the responsibilities of the role.
• Demonstrated readiness to formally lead employees, including experience providing direction, feedback, coaching, mentoring, or other leadership to technical staff.
• Experience delivering technical work in field, startup, commissioning, design, or other relevant project environments.

Requirements

• Strong practical technical background sufficient to understand startup, commissioning, integration, troubleshooting, panel-design, or other work performed by assigned employees; evaluate employee capability and work quality; recognize technical, field, design, and delivery risks; and identify when additional expertise is needed.
• Ability to work effectively with senior technical contributors and Engineers to provide employees with appropriate technical direction, review, mentoring, and development.
• Ability to lead and develop technical employees through clear expectations, timely feedback, coaching, accountability, and appropriate development opportunities.
• Sound judgment in routine employee, staffing, field, project, and delivery situations, including knowing when to act independently and when additional expertise or authority is needed.
• Ability to plan and balance employee workload based on project needs, employee capability, availability, location, travel requirements, and development opportunities.
• Ability to address performance concerns and difficult conversations directly, professionally, and in a timely manner.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively with employees, Project Management, technical leaders, customers, and other organizational functions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with annual bonus opportunity
• 401(k) with company match
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with low-cost options
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Tuition reimbursement and professional credential support
• In-house and external technical training opportunities
• Exposure to complex, high-impact automation projects
• A collaborative culture built on integrity, accountability, and teamwork