Job Title: Junior Project Manager
Work Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Work Location: Wallenstein, ON (Hybrid)
Wage: $60,000 - $70,000 based on experience
Vacancies: 1 to 2

At Earthscape Play, our mission is to design and craft beautiful, innovative, and seriously fun play structures and community spaces. Earthscape is a leader in the renaissance of timber playgrounds, and we are passionate about building serious fun! Our early work began with a focus on natural playgrounds for local schools and childcare centers but quickly evolved into creating epic, bespoke destination playscapes.

Earthscape Collections is our pre-designed product line offered through our North American network of trusted representatives or directly by Earthscape here in our own backyard of Ontario. The Collections product line has brought more communities access to our exceptionally designed, high-play-value, high-quality, hand-made wooden playground structures. Our playgrounds stimulate children's imaginations, offer physical challenges and beneficial risk, foster social interaction, and creative play. All of our structures are built on-demand together with our team of extremely talented designers, engineers, and skilled craftspeople in our Canadian fabrication shop using incredibly robust and long-lasting materials.

Our award-winning design-build firm is located just outside of Elmira, Ontario, in Waterloo Region. The work environment we've created is positive, productive, fun, and rewarding. To see our wide-ranging portfolio of projects, visit www.earthscapeplay.com.

Summary of the role:

We are looking for a Junior Project Manager who will focus on delivering Collections projects to our customers. You will be part of an agile and multi-disciplinary team that is responsible for the successful delivery of all our project types that include: Custom, Collections, International, and Ontario Site-Design projects. As a part of this team, you will be engaged and committed to delivering high-performing projects that leave our customers with a long-lasting positive experience.

Value of this Role:

• Deliver outstanding client service by truly understanding their perspective, consistently responding promptly to requests, and proactively following up to ensure their complete satisfaction.
• Cultivate and grow strong and long-lasting relationships with our North American network of Representatives to help them serve the Landscape Architecture community.
• Skillfully communicate and provide documentation of product details, installation requirements, project scope, schedule, and budget in a clear and engaging manner, and ensure understanding.
• Issue change orders to modify contract agreements and manage costs when necessary.
• Proactively identify and tackle project challenges, demonstrating strong initiative and effective problem-solving.
• Collaborate internally within a multi-disciplinary team to find solutions to unique project challenges.
• Produce technical drawing deliverables as well as project-specific maintenance and warranty documentation.
• Ensure timely delivery and coordination of all project components well ahead of shipping in adherence to our quality standards.

Qualifications:

• Degree or certification in business administration, project management, landscape architecture, or other related fields.
• Exposure to play products, landscape design, sports equipment, and outdoor products.
• Basic proficiency in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, Rhino & Microsoft Office Suite.
• Have a technical aptitude and ability to read construction drawings.
• Experience using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.

Attributes:

• Patient in the face of challenges.
• A willingness to admit when you don't understand.
• Takes responsibility to drive project progress.
• Flexible in navigating processes and systems in a growing company with evolving demands and complexity.
• Communicates feedback in the spirit of fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Enabling supportive and collaborative partnerships with our external partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking, email etiquette, grammar, and networking.
• Has excellent attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks and work efficiently.
• Passion for play and the affordances playgrounds provide to community spaces.
• Desire to learn, to grow, and to find solutions.
• Has fun, enjoys, and cares about the people they work with, our projects and the environment.

Why Join Us?

• Profit sharing after 1 year
• Employee share ownership opportunities (ESOP) after 1 year
• 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
• Highly engaging culture with great people who are genuinely approachable and supportive

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.