Production Team Lead

NV5•Lexington, KY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Geospatial Production Team Lead to support mobile mapping and transportation asset inventory production workflows. This role will lead a team of production operators responsible for reviewing roadway imagery, interacting with geospatial tools, supporting asset extraction workflows, validating outputs, and ensuring work is completed accurately, consistently, and on schedule. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines production coordination, quality oversight, technical workflow support, and people management. The Team Lead will help run day-to-day production activities, answer operator questions, review outputs, monitor performance, support training, and ensure the team follows documented standards and project requirements. The ideal candidate has experience in GIS, geospatial production, transportation asset inventory, mobile mapping, or related technical production environments. Experience with mobile LiDAR, mobile imagery, AI-assisted workflows, and automation-supported production is preferred. This role is critical to ensuring transportation asset inventory projects are delivered accurately, efficiently, and consistently. The Geospatial Production Team Lead helps bridge the gap between project requirements, technical workflows, and production execution by ensuring operators understand expectations, follow approved processes, and produce high-quality geospatial data. The person in this role will help improve production performance, reduce rework, identify recurring quality issues, and support a team culture focused on accountability, consistency, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in geospatial production, GIS operations, transportation asset inventory, data annotation, mapping, remote sensing, or a related technical production environment.
2+ years of experience leading, mentoring, training, coordinating, or directly managing production team members.
Strong working knowledge of GIS concepts, spatial data, mapping workflows, geospatial data review, and quality control.
Experience operating technical tools, production applications, GIS software, validation tools, or structured production workflows.
Strong attention to detail and ability to reinforce documented standards, specifications, and procedures.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to provide clear direction, actionable feedback, and effective support to production operators.

Nice To Haves

Experience with transportation-related data, roadway assets, mobile mapping, mobile LiDAR, roadway imagery, or infrastructure inventory.
Experience supporting transportation asset inventory projects for state DOTs, counties, municipalities, or infrastructure clients.
Familiarity with mobile mapping platforms, roadway imagery viewers, LiDAR viewers, data annotation tools, or asset extraction tools
Experience using AI-assisted tools, structured prompts, automation, or validation tools to improve production efficiency, documentation, or quality review.
Experience creating or maintaining standard operating procedures, checklists, training materials, or workflow documentation.
Ability to work hybrid schedule out of Lexington Kentucky or Sun Prairie , Wisconsin .

Responsibilities

Lead the day-to-day activities of a geospatial production team supporting mobile mapping, roadway imagery, LiDAR, and transportation asset inventory workflows.
Coordinate daily production assignments, priorities, operator questions, workflow execution, and task completion.
Serve as the first point of contact for production blockers, workflow clarification, quality questions, and operator support needs.
Provide clear direction, coaching, and support to production operators to ensure work is completed accurately and consistently.
Support onboarding, retraining, skill development, and performance feedback for assigned team members.
Support production workflows involving mobile mapping data, roadway imagery, mobile LiDAR, geospatial tools, and transportation asset inventory datasets.
Run production tools, validation tools, GIS applications, AI-assisted workflows, or other technical systems needed to support production delivery.
Assist operators with reviewing imagery, interpreting transportation assets, interacting with geospatial data, and completing asset extraction or validation tasks.
Support production activities for transportation assets such as signs, signals, pavement markings, curb ramps, sidewalks, bridges, drainage features, and other roadway or roadside assets.
Identify workflow gaps, unclear requirements, tool issues, or recurring production challenges that may affect quality, throughput, or schedule.
Review production outputs for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and adherence to documented project standards.
Perform quality checks on geospatial production data, including attribution, feature placement, asset classification, completeness, and project-specific requirements.
Reinforce standard operating procedures, checklists, production expectations, and quality standards across the team.
Document quality findings, production concerns, operator questions, and workflow issues clearly and consistently.
Identify recurring quality issues and recommend practical improvements to reduce rework and improve consistency.
Monitor production performance, including throughput, productivity, quality, rework, backlog, and schedule progress.
Use production metrics, dashboards, spreadsheets, tracking tools, or reporting methods to identify risks and communicate status.
Escalate risks, blockers, data concerns, or quality issues to project managers, QA/QC staff, or technical leads as appropriate.
Contribute to standard operating procedures, training guides, quality standards, workflow documentation, and process improvement efforts.