Technical Team Lead: Lead, Develop & Deliver Automation

Thermo Systems LLC.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Systems LLC is seeking a Technical Team Lead to guide a technical team in delivering automation projects across energy, life sciences, and mission-critical sectors. You will mentor engineers, drive performance, and coordinate staffing and workloads to meet delivery targets.

The role emphasizes leadership over hands-on work, with opportunities to contribute technically when appropriate, and requires strong communication, coaching, and strategic planning capabilities.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day performance, development, workload, and delivery of an assigned technical team.
• Set clear expectations and priorities for employees, monitor progress and commitments, provide timely feedback and coaching, and address performance or conduct concerns when they arise.
• Plan and manage employee assignments and workload based on project needs, employee capability, availability, travel requirements, development opportunities, and other business requirements.
• Work with Project Management and other leaders to resolve routine staffing conflicts, changing priorities, schedule constraints, travel needs, and other issues affecting team delivery.
• Work with senior technical contributors to ensure employees receive appropriate technical direction, review, mentoring, and support for their assigned work.
• Understand the quality of work being produced by the team, ensure employees receive relevant feedback, and address recurring quality or capability issues through coaching, training, mentoring, or other development.
• Support employee career development by understanding individual strengths, development needs, and career goals and providing appropriate feedback, learning opportunities, and assignments.
• Participate in recruiting, interviewing, selection, onboarding, and integration of new employees.
• Solve routine employee, staffing, and delivery problems independently and escalates issues when additional expertise, authority, or broader organizational involvement is required.
• May perform technical or project work when appropriate to support team delivery or employee development, provided individual production remains secondary to leadership responsibilities.
• Communicate priorities, expectations, decisions, and changes clearly to employees and ensure important information reaches the team in a timely manner.
• Maintain regular communication with employees regarding workload, performance, development, project needs, travel or field requirements, and issues affecting their work.
• Coordinate with Project Management, technical leaders, and other teams to align staffing, priorities, schedules, travel requirements, and deliverables.
• Address routine disagreements, competing priorities, and communication problems constructively and work toward practical solutions.
• Communicate risks and problems early, including the impact, actions already taken, and where additional support or decisions are needed.
• Contributes to a positive and professional work environment through their actions, communication, and interactions with others.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

Staffing

Communication

Project management

Education

Associate degree

Job description

Thermo Systems LLC is seeking a Technical Team Lead to guide a technical team in delivering automation projects across energy, life sciences, and mission-critical sectors. You will mentor engineers, drive performance, and coordinate staffing and workloads to meet delivery targets.

The role emphasizes leadership over hands-on work, with opportunities to contribute technically when appropriate, and requires strong communication, coaching, and strategic planning capabilities.