Posted 18 days ago
Applied Playground Designer
@ Earthscape Play
Wallenstein, Ontario
Overview
Earthscape Play is hiring an Applied Playground Designer for a full-time remote role. The designer develops custom playground equipment, 3D base plans, construction drawings and Enscape renderings for a design-build firm making timber play structures. The posting lists a salary of $65,000 to $75,000, flex time and hybrid options, and benefits including profit sharing and extended health and dental coverage.
Pay:
$65,000–$75,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Develop customized play equipment and 3D base plans
- Prepare construction drawings for playground layouts
- Render models in Enscape with lighting and materials
- Maintain 2D and 3D asset libraries in SketchUp and Rhino
- Optimize file sizes and translate models between CAD tools
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years of SketchUp modeling experience
- Basic Rhinoceros 3D modeling and export skills
- Expert in InDesign and Illustrator
- AutoCAD experience with layers and file export
- Strong organization and attention to detail
- Interest in play, inclusive design and child development
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-19
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-20
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-20
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Design & creative |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Encouraged to apply | Indigenous peoples, Racialized people, People with disabilities |
| Perks mentioned | Tuition support, Performance bonus, Stock or equity |
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Earthscape Play
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Bespoke timber playgrounds by an award-winning design-build firm.
Full company description
Established in 2005 as a residential landscape design-build firm; in 2011, the company expanded its scope of services to design and build custom playgrounds. We have since received over 50 Awards for playground design & construction, commercial design, landscape design & construction, water feature design-build and lighting design. PLAYGROUND DIVISION Our goal is to design and build incredible custom playgrounds that open children’s imaginations, stimulate their creativity and challenge their motor development. Complex and challenging structures, with dynamic features encourage climbing, balancing, jumping, mobility, strength, executive function, imagination and coordination. Risk and independence, failure and mastery, friendship and silence, are all facilitated by our playground designs and our constructed sites. Our playgrounds are designed and fabricated in our Elmira, Ontario workshop where our experienced designers, crafts people and installation technicians work side-by-side to ensure adherence to strict safety standards while maximizing play potential.
- LinkedIn followers
- 7,404
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 97
- Reported office locations
- 7215 WELLINGTON RD 86, WALLENSTEIN, ONTARIO N0B2S0, CA
- Contactweg 47, Unit 6, Amsterdam, North Holland 1014 AN, NL
- Business categories
- Architecture
- Construction
- Education
- Environmental Consulting
- Other recorded names
- Earthscape Play
- Specialties
- natural playgrounds
- playground construction
- playground design
- design-build
- landscape architecture
- and industrial design
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Established in 2005 as a residential landscape design-build firm; in 2011, the company expanded its scope of services to design and build custom playgrounds. We have since received over 50 Awards for playground design & construction, commercial design, landscape design & construction, water feature design-build and lighting design. PLAYGROUND DIVISION Our goal is to design and build incredible custom playgrounds…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Design Services |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | WALLENSTEIN, ONTARIO |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2005 |
| Specialties | natural playgroundsplayground constructionplayground designdesign-buildlandscape architectureand industrial design |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 3 |
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Applied Playground Designer
Work Type: Full Time
Work Location: Remote position
Wage: $65,000 - $75,000
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.
Applied Playground Designer
What You’ll Own:
- Playground Design: Develop customized play equipment, 3D base plans, and effective visuals of designs.
- Construction Drawings: working with layouts for playground installations
- Rendering: Render models with Enscape, manage lighting/material settings to create exceptional & consistent visuals.
- Asset Production & Management: Supporting the development and maintenance of 2D and 3D assets in the standard product portfolio for use internally and externally, as well as the SketchUp and Rhino libraries.
- Optimization & Technical Translation: Reduce file sizes and optimize components to ensure high-performance modeling across the team. Support the translation of 3D models between Rhino, SketchUp, and SolidWorks while retaining functionality.
Skills You Bring:
- SketchUp: 5+ years of experience in modeling, dynamic components, metadata utilization, and troubleshooting complex models.
- Basic Rhinoceros 3D: Experience in modeling and exporting to different formats.
- Advanced Adobe Suite: Expert in InDesign and Illustrator; skilled in vector-based art and quick design iterations.
- AutoCAD: Ability to work with layers and export files between CAD and Illustrator.
- Organization: Highly organized with strong attention to detail and time management.
- Passion for Play: Interest in play, inclusive design and child development
- Google Suite: Knowledge of Google Suite is an asset
- Project Management: Prior experience in project management is an asset
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 for continuous learning
- Extended health and dental benefits
- Flex time with options to work hybrid to support work-life balance
- Company events and a casual dress code
Accommodation: 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.
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
Please submit a letter expressing why you feel you are a good fit for Earthscape Play, your resume, and your portfolio through our careers page.
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