Senior Technical Designer

Senior Technical Designer
Job Type: Full-Time Permanent
Work Location: Wallenstein, ON (Hybrid)
Compensation: $80,000 - 90,000/year
Vacancies: 2

Are you ready to build incredible things that inspire wonder and play? At Earthscape, we design, engineer, and build custom playground structures and sculptures that become iconic destination spaces. We partner with some of the most prestigious landscape architecture firms in North America to bring brilliant playground concepts to life. If you're passionate about creative problem-solving and building state-of-the-art timber playgrounds, we want you to join our team.

We're an award-winning design-build firm located just outside of Elmira, Ontario. Our work environment is positive, productive, and fun—we take pride in what we create together. To see our one-of-a-kind projects, visit www.earthscapeplay.com.

Currently, we are looking for a Senior Technical Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you'll be a key part of our Engineering team, helping to bring groundbreaking ideas into reality. This role is perfect for a detail-oriented professional with a passion for custom timber design and a proven track record of bringing complex projects to life. You'll be responsible for the technical design, detailing, and engineering of our bespoke timber structures, ensuring they are both aesthetically stunning and structurally sound. This role has the potential to evolve into a higher-functioning leadership position, depending on company needs and the individual's performance and career goals.. It is best suited to someone who is comfortable working outside the box; our playgrounds don't fit within regular building code categories.

The role:

• Lead the accurate and well-documented technical design and engineering of custom timber projects, from initial concept through to final fabrication drawings
• Collaborate with designers, project managers, and fabrication teams to ensure design intent is maintained while meeting all technical requirements
• Apply your knowledge of structural or mechanical principles to solve complex design challenges and optimize designs for manufacturing
• Conduct design reviews and quality checks to ensure all products meet our high standards for safety and quality
• Break down complex problems into manageable components and propose multiple viable solutions to a single problem
• Strive toward developing new skills within all areas of playground design and construction
• Manage project timelines and resources effectively to ensure project deadlines are met
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to brainstorm ideas, analyze concepts and present your work.

Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:

• Postsecondary education in design, STEM or a related field is preferred
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in design, manufacturing or custom-build environment
• Advanced experience with Solidworks or similar for 3D modelling and detailing
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical information to diverse audiences
• Are meticulous and have a keen eye for detail, consistently identify and correct errors in designs
• Are the kind of person who thinks building models, LEGO, or even assembling IKEA furniture is awesome.

What of your past work can you share with us to illustrate your skills as a technical designer? Please include examples as appropriate within your application.

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.

We believe in great compensation for great employees, and we reward our staff with a combination of:

• Profit sharing and performance bonuses
• Employee share ownership opportunities (ESOP) after 1 year of service
• Six-week sabbatical after 14,000 hours worked
• Tuition reimbursement
• Extended health and dental benefits
• Flex time with options to work remotely to support work-life balance
• Company events
• Casual dress code.

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.