About City of Fountain Valley
What is the City of Fountain Valley?
The City of Fountain Valley is the municipal government of Fountain Valley, California — an Orange County city of roughly 57,000, incorporated in 1957 and famous for the delightfully modest motto on its welcome sign: "A Nice Place to Live". The city runs its own Police Department and Fire Department, Public Works with a city water system, Planning & Building and Community Services; it sits at the heart of coastal Orange County, ten minutes from Huntington Beach.
Where will I work?
Fountain Valley City Hall at 10200 Slater Avenue. The compressed schedule is written into the city's own job bulletins as a headline benefit: technical and office recruitments state "EXCELLENT BENEFITS INCLUDE: 9/80 Work Schedule", while field recruitments state "4/10 schedule (off Fridays)" — different bargaining units, both compressed. For the professional workforce, that means eighty hours over nine days per fortnight with every other Friday off.
What is the City of Fountain Valley team like?
A civic workforce of roughly 300 across public safety, the water system, engineering, planning and community services. Recent civilian postings span technical, administrative and public-works roles. We list Fountain Valley's civilian positions; sworn police and fire roles run separate duty rosters and are excluded from our feed.
Work-Life Balance
Compressed weeks are the deal here, and the city leads with them — the schedule sits at the top of the benefits list in its own adverts, ahead of the pension. Alongside it: CalPERS retirement (2%@60 for Classic or 2%@62 for PEPRA members, quoted verbatim in the bulletins), flex dollars toward CalPERS medical HMO/PPO plans, formal vacation and sick accruals, paid holidays, and salary ranges published on every bulletin. Employee reviews on Indeed average 3.7 with no long-hours pattern — the gripes that exist are about management style, and one reviewer sums the environment up as "great working environment, not high demand, amazing co-workers".
Perks and Benefits
- Compressed schedules verbatim in the city's own bulletins — "9/80 Work Schedule" (office/technical) and "4/10 schedule (off Fridays)" (field)
- CalPERS defined-benefit pension (2%@60 Classic / 2%@62 PEPRA, per the bulletins)
- Flex dollars for CalPERS medical HMO/PPO plans
- Salary ranges published on every job bulletin
- Formal vacation, sick leave and paid-holiday provisions