Project Engineer

Community Playgrounds, Inc. is the largest commercial playground installation company in California. We complete hundreds of projects per year and specialize in play equipment and shade structure construction for schools, parks, childcare centers, and HOAs throughout the entire state.

We are looking for a high initative full-time Project Engineer to be responsible for all technical disciplines that projects involve. You will schedule, plan, forecast, resources and manage all the technical activities aiming at assuring project accuracy and quality from conception to completion.

Responsibilities
• Prepare, schedule, coordinate and monitor the assigned projects
• Monitor compliance to applicable codes, practices, technical policies, performance standards and specifications
• Interact daily with the clients to interpret their needs and requirements and represent them in the field
• Perform overall quality control of the work (budget, schedule, plans, personnel’s performance) and report regularly on project status
• Assign responsibilities amongst project team
• Cooperate and communicate effectively with project manager and other project stakeholders to complete assignments
• Review engineering deliverables and initiate appropriate corrective actions

Requirements and skills
• Demonstrated interest in construction or trades
• Advanced MS Office skills
• Ability to work with on multiple projects with competing deadlines
• Project management and task supervision skills
• Decision making ability and leadership skills
• Time management and organization skills
• BS degree in Engineering or relevant field 

Our company has an excellent reputation within our trade, and we are looking for highly motivated college graduates to join our growing team.

Important qualities for the job are humility, initiative and communication.  

Thank you for applying and we look forward to reviewing your application.

About Community Playgrounds, Inc.

Established 1977, is a specialty General Contractor in Vallejo, CA. Our firm has completed over 15,000 playground projects over its 47 year history and for notable clients such as: Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District, University of California childcare centers (at multiple locations), San Francisco Moscone Center, and many others. We have worked with most large construction companies that operate in California, including: Ghilotti Brother, Swinerton, Webcor, Matt, Balfour Beatty, McGuire and Hester, Turner, Cahill, Plant, McCarthy, and many others. We are known as the "playground builders" in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles metro area, and Inland Empire, and the first call for many general contractors, school districts, park and recreation departments, cities, and other clients.