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Inspection Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 19+ inspection jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and compressed weeks—for a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include Parsons Corporation, Los Angeles County Public Works, and General Atomics.

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9-day fortnights 12
compressed weeks 4

Updated September 7, 2026

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Deployable Airframe & Powerplant Specialist

General Atomics · Remote · Poway, CA, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Deployable Airframe & Powerplant Specialist

General Atomics · Remote · Poway, CA, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Structural Inspector

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight

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Structural Inspector

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight

Project Quality Specialist – Mechanical

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight

Electronic Inspector III

10d

Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Onsite · Pasadena, CA, USA

68 · Good9 Day Fortnight$69k – $95k

Cross Connection Control Investigator

City of Compton · Onsite · Compton, CA, USA

58 · GoodCompressed Work Week$79k – $93k

Feed Officer

13d

Scottish Government · Hybrid · Aberdeen +2 more

71 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Cross-Connection Control Inspector

11d

City of Redlands · Onsite · Redlands, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$70k – $92k

Quality Control Coordinator

1mo

Emesent · Onsite · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

64 · Good9 Day Fortnight

ENGINEERING TESTING TECHNICIAN

20d

Los Angeles County Public Works · Onsite · Los Angeles, CA, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week$67k – $86k

CONTRACT MONITOR

1mo

Los Angeles County Public Works · Hybrid · Los Angeles, CA, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week$51k – $68k

Building Inspector II

19d

City of Pasadena · Onsite · Pasadena, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$85k – $106k

Code Enforcement Officer (Bilingual-Spanish or Vietnamese)

24d

City of Santa Ana · Onsite · Santa Ana, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$80k – $108k

Assistant Resident Engineer

3mo

markThomas · Onsite · Fresno, CA +2 more

53 · Decent

Assistant Resident Engineer

3mo

markThomas · Onsite · Irvine, CA +3 more

53 · Decent

Community Inspector – Workers' Village (City Operations)

13d

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight

Project Quality Specialist - Electrical

20d

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight

Materials Engineer (Infrastructure)

1mo

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight

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Employers hiring for Inspection on this page include Parsons Corporation, Los Angeles County Public Works, and General Atomics. Inspection roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Inspection is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Inspection roles span the full seniority range — we list 18 open roles requiring Inspection across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Inspection hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Inspection roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Inspection candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Inspection on current listings.