Senior Engineering Team Lead
Listed on 2026-07-26
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Management
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Engineering
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Location
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Located within the Southeast region of U.S. Candidates may also be based at one of our other locations listed below.
East Windsor, NJ | Reston, VA | Mansfield, TX | Montgomery, AL
Compensation: $140,000 - $150,000 Annually + Bonus Eligibility
Travel: Up to 50% to Montgomery, AL
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Who We Are
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Thermo Systems is a global, full-service control systems integration partner, delivering world-class automation solutions in the District Energy, Life Sciences, and Mission Critical markets. Our diverse leadership and dedicated engineering team are committed to excellence and consistent growth. Our unique company culture, known as "The Thermo Way", strengthens our team by fostering an environment where all members perform their best.
Our commitment to being unified, dynamic, and delivering excellence is evident in how we build trusting relationships through connection and camaraderie, ability to adapt, and focus on integrity and success. These values guide our daily operations and interactions, setting the standard for our team's behavior. As we continue to grow and evolve, "The Thermo Way" supports our goals of becoming a world-class organization, ensuring employee success, customer success, and financial strength.
Job Summary:
The primary focus of the Senior Engineering Team Lead (Sr.ETL) is to build, grow, and manage a high-performing engineering team. The Sr.ETL serves primarily as a professional supervisor focusing on organizational development, team retention, and cultivating a high-performance culture. While a successful Sr.ETL must maintain a firm understanding of complex control system design and technologies to guide and lead the team effectively, project management and hands-on technical execution combined will encompass no more than 10% of their dedicated time.
The Sr.ETL will collaborate with technical leadership, project managers, other supervisors, and company leadership to ensure their team’s safety, success, and seamless execution of projects across the organization.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Supervisory, Leadership & Customer Success (Primary Focus - 90%+ of Time)
- Responsible for the safety, training, development, and career progression of team members.
- Build and manage capable engineers to deliver excellent customer care and support, ensuring the team communicates in an effective, positive, and proactive manner.
- Actively drive the recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding of engineers (from entry-level to senior), evaluating candidates for both technical and cultural fit to ensure their seamless integration into the team.
- Cultivate a high-performance, accountable culture by utilizing constructive feedback as a continuous, vital developmental tool.
- Ensure the team understands and anticipates customer needs, and follows Thermo’s Quality Standards, and customer-specific site standards and procedures.
- Serve as the primary escalation point and main contact for administrative and technical needs of the team.
- Manage team members' compensation, time off, performance, and retention.
- Ensure team members are effectively and strategically assigned to project tasks that align with both project needs and personal growth.
- Establish a clear, unified vision for the team’s success, actively working to eliminate operational silos and champion the One Thermo Culture.
- Resolve conflicts within the team promptly and professionally.
- Commitment to continually developing technical leaders and future supervisors.
Project Management & Technical Leadership (~10% of Time)
- Provide high-level technical guidance and oversight on complex control system designs, limiting direct, hands-on engineering work.
- Collaborate with Sr. Engineers and Project Managers to accurately estimate the duration and difficulty of tasks, ensuring the team adheres to a realistic schedule and budget.
- Delegate tasks effectively while supporting the…
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