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Senior Technical Designer

Job Type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary: $65,000-80,000 + bonus

At Earthscape, we create beautiful, innovative custom playground sculptures and structures that inspire children and adults to creatively play. By partnering with some of the most prestigious Landscape Architecture firms in North America, we bring brilliant playground concepts to life. Our award-winning design-build firm is located just outside of Elmira, Ontario in Waterloo Region.

Together, our ambitious team designs, engineers, builds and installs state-of-the-art timber playgrounds that become iconic and well-loved destination spaces. The work environment we've created is positive, productive, fun and rewarding. To see our one-of-a-kind projects, visit www.earthscapeplay.com (http://www.earthscapeplay.com/).

Currently, we are looking for a Playground Technical Designer to join our growing team. The role of this team member is best suited to someone with experience in custom design and manufacturing and/or new product development, who is able to produce technical content for downstream production. It is best suited to someone who is comfortable working outside the box; our playgrounds don't fit within regular building code categories.

Your job will be to produce fabrication drawings and installation instructions for our engineering and fabrication crews, conduct product revisions and contribute to design optimizations, update standard details, and support continuous improvement projects. You will brainstorm ideas, analyze, test, document, and present your work by collaborating with a diverse group of colleagues. Ultimately, you will strive toward developing new skills within all areas of playground design and construction.

Ideal candidates will:

• have a background in engineering, custom construction, product development, design or a similar industry;

• have experience using custom 3D CAD modeling software;

• have intermediate to advanced experience with Solidworks for detailing;

• experience writing macros or programming with Solidworks API an asset;

• think that building models, Lego, or even assembling IKEA furniture is awesome;

• enjoy collaborative work with a multidisciplinary team but also work effectively with little supervision;

• have a growth mindset, and learn from your mistakes;

• have excellent attention to detail;

• possess excellent organization skills;

• have a natural ability to prioritize tasks and work efficiently;

• have a creative mind and willingness to think outside the box.

What's in it for you?

This job will offer you the opportunity to work on some of North America's most innovative playground projects. The pace, challenges and problem-solving opportunities will mean you are never bored. You will have the chance to develop and refine a wide variety of skills in our rapidly growing business. Your colleagues are dynamic, and highly skilled. They have an impressive range of backgrounds, skills and expertise. Above all they are dedicated to Earthscape's success.

If you feel you would be an asset to our team, please include samples or examples of things that you have made in your application package.

We believe strongly in rewarding our staff with a combination of:

• profit sharing and performance bonuses;

• award-winning projects and designs;

• track record of excellent client relationships;

• extended health and dental benefits for full-time employees.

Compensation: $70,000-80,000/year commensurate with experience

Accommodations: We are committed to treating all people in a way that respects their dignity and independence. Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process or otherwise, please notify us of this when you apply and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Pre-employment checks: As part of our selection process, successful candidates may be required to consent to background checks relevant to the role, prior to receiving a job offer. These could include: work references, education and credential confirmation, employment verification, identity check, criminal offense and driver's license record.

At Earthscape Play, we are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are an important part of our everyday work, and it is our belief that they enable us to reach our goal of bringing incredible play spaces to life. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.