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As of Sep 7, 2026, the average hourly pay for playground installer in Indiana is $25.82, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $17.60 and $34.33 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a playground installer?

A Playground Installer is responsible for assembling, installing, and sometimes maintaining playground equipment in parks, schools, and other recreational spaces. The job involves reading blueprints, ensuring proper safety standards, and using tools to secure structures effectively. Installers may work with materials like metal, wood, and plastic while ensuring the equipment is level and stable. The role often requires physical labor, teamwork, and attention to detail to create safe play environments for children.

What does a playground installer do?

A typical day for a Playground Installer often starts with meeting the installation team at the job site to review project plans and safety protocols. Tasks involve preparing the site, assembling and securing playground components, conducting safety checks, and ensuring the installation meets quality standards. Installers frequently coordinate with project managers, construction crews, and sometimes clients or school representatives. The work is hands-on, involves both indoor and outdoor settings, and may require travel to different locations. The variety in projects and teamwork environment makes the role both dynamic and rewarding.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a playground installer?

Playground Installers need strong mechanical aptitude, basic carpentry or construction skills, and physical fitness, often supported by a high school diploma or equivalent. Familiarity with hand and power tools, the ability to read blueprints, and certifications such as OSHA safety training are common requirements. Excellent teamwork, attention to detail, and effective communication with clients and colleagues are valued soft skills. These abilities ensure playgrounds are built safely, efficiently, and in compliance with regulations, helping deliver a positive experience for both clients and end-users.

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Maintenance Worker

Lake Ridge New Tech Schools

Gary, IN • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 13 hours ago


Job description

LAKE RIDGE NEW TECH SCHOOLS

JOB DESCRIPTION

MAINTENANCE/GROUNDS WORKER

Position Type: Full-Time / 260 Days / Classified/Hourly Non-Exempt

Reports To: Director of Facilities

Evaluated By: Director of Facilities

Evaluation Frequency: Annually

Schedule: Works weekdays Monday through Friday: Day Shift (6:00am-3:00pm)


Purpose of the Position

Keeps school buildings and grounds in clean, orderly, safe, and operational condition and tends to HVAC Systems to provide heat, cool or fresh air, and hot water for students, faculty, staff, and visitors and keeps external grounds neat, clean and safe and possess the ability to use tools and equipment necessary to carry out this job assignment.


Duties & Responsibilities

·        Perform general maintenance and repairs of facilities and grounds.

·        Keep all machinery, plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, ventilation, air-handling, and lighting equipment clean, maintained and serviced.

·        Report promptly any condition that might be unsafe or decrease the efficiency of such machinery or equipment.

·        Service all lawns, playground equipment, drains, walks, driveways, and entrances, including snow removal.

·        Assist in working with carpentry, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, painting.

·        Follow established and generally recognized safety procedures.

·        Maintain a safe and clean work area during and after performing a maintenance task.

·        Maintain tools and equipment in clean, safe, and neat order.

·        Maintain regular attendance.

·        Open and close the building as directed by the principal.

·        Be on duty for the regular hours assigned and when called upon for school events outside school hours, unless excused by the school principal.

·        Report to the principal any injuries of students or others while on school property; report to the principal any damage to the building, equipment, grounds or other property of the school corporation.

·        Sweep, mop, scrub and vacuum hallways, stairs, classrooms, and office space.

·        Check boilers daily during heating season and run tests and checks as scheduled.

·        Notify the principal concerning need for major repairs or additions to lighting, heating and ventilating equipment.

·        Keep an inventory of supplies on hand and requisition needed replacements far enough in advance so that they may be delivered in such time as will not hinder the evening custodians’ duties.

·        Move furniture or equipment within buildings as required for various activities as directed by the principal.

·        Comply with local laws and procedures for the storage and disposal of trash, rubbish, and waste.

·        Conduct periodic inspections and tests of all electrical installations in the school to ensure their safe condition.

·        Mow lawn, trim shrubbery and cultivate flowers using hand tools and power tools.

·        Monitor, clean and maintain lunchroom as directed by the building principal.

·        Inspect roofing on monthly basis or more frequently as necessary.

·        Maintain a storage space for all stock items received from district storage cache.

·        Accurately and thoroughly enters, completes and submits preventive maintenance reports and monitors, responds to, resolves, and updates Help Desk tickets and completes other reports and documents on a timely basis.

·        Report to the building principal and Director of Facilities all maintenance, unsafe conditions, and areas of neglected cleanliness that cannot be resolved.

Perform all other duties as assigned.

 


Skills & Qualifications

Education and Experience

·        High School Diploma or GED required

·        Must be at least 18 years of age

·        2-3 years of experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in facility maintenance and grounds care related fields and skills.

      LANGUAGE SKILLS 

·         Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos

·        Ability to write simple correspondence.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

·        Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

     REASONING ABILITY

·        Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

      OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES

·        Ability to operate all custodial cleaning equipment, particularly floor care equipment; ability to work on ladders; ability to run and maintain snow blowers, lawn mowers and other lawn care equipment; ability to safely work on scaffolding, and lifts; knowledge in electricity (run and test circuits, etc.) plumbing, carpentry, gas powered motors, pumps, tractors, trucks, snowplowing, roofing, and blueprint reading; ability to relate well to other employees, students, parents and community members.

The building principal, supervisor or designee shall make daily work assignments for maintenance personnel. These assignments shall not be limited to an employee's specific skill.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or non-prescribed controlled substance abuse in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the school corporation.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. The individuals currently holding this position perform additional duties and additional duties may be assigned.


Terms of Employment

Work Year: 260 Days

Classification: Non-Exempt

Compensation: $19-30 per hour; based on skill level and experience



This job description is not an exhaustive list of all duties. Additional duties may be assigned. The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or non-prescribed controlled substance in the workplace throughout their employment with the Corporation. This employer does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.