Production Team Lead

Geospatial Production Team Lead

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, 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.

Work Environment:

• Location: Ability to work hybrid schedule out of Lexington, Kentucky or Sun Prairie, Wisconsin is strongly preferred
• Travel < 10%

At NV5, we are a collaboration of intelligent, innovative thinkers who care for each other, our communities, and the environment. We value both heart and head, the diversity of our people, and their experiences because that is how we continue to grow as a leader in our industry and expand our individual and collective potential.

NV5 is a global technology solutions and consulting services company with a workforce of over 4,500 professionals in more than 100 offices worldwide. NV5's continued growth has been spurred through strategic investments in firms with unique capabilities to help current and future customers solve the world's toughest problems. The NV5 family brings together talent across a wide range of markets and fields, including Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, Architects, Photogrammetrists, GIS Professionals, Software Developers, IT, Project Management Professionals, and more.

Responsibilities

Production Leadership and Team Coordination

• 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.

Mobile Mapping and Asset Inventory Workflows

• 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.

Quality Control and Standards

• 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.

Production Tracking and Continuous Improvement

• 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screening.

NV5 offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, FTO, 401(k) and professional development/advancement opportunities.

NV5 provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. NV5 complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.