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Maintenance Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 53+ maintenance jobs at companies offering 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights—for a better work-life balance. 19 new this week. Hiring companies include 25hours Hotels, City of Harker Heights, and Phillips 66.

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4-day weeks 10
9-day fortnights 14
compressed weeks 17
summer Fridays 3
best places to work 4

Updated August 22, 2026

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SME, Rotating Equipment - Midstream

NEW

Phillips 66 · Remote · USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$222k – $272k

MANUFACTURING DISCOVERY SPECIALIST

1mo

Brightbeam · Remote · Waterford, Ireland

83 · Great4 Day Work Week

Application Engineer

28d

Augury · Remote · USA

77 · GreatRotating 4 Day Week$75k – $95k

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Reliability Success Manager

1mo

Augury · Remote · Europe

77 · GreatRotating 4 Day Week

Concreter

NEW

Nambucca Valley Council · Onsite · Macksville, New South Wales, Australia

69 · Good9 Day Fortnight$1,258 – $1,454/wk

Plant Operators (Civil - Kalkie Depot)

Bundaberg Regional Council · Onsite · Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

64 · Good9 Day Fortnight$72k

Autonomous Semi Technician - Swing Shift

NEW

22h

Waabi · Onsite · Dallas, TX, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Plumber

Jigsaw Homes Group · Hybrid · Dukinfield, UK

67 · GoodCompressed Work Week£38k – £40k

Multi Skilled Technician

Jigsaw Homes Group · Onsite · Dukinfield, UK

67 · GoodCompressed Work Week£32k – £34k

Facility Technician

NEW

Phillips 66 · Onsite · Thompson Falls, MT, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$70k – $86k

ENGINEERING TESTING AID I

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

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week$45k – $54k

AV Associate

NEW

Braze · Onsite · New York City, NY, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$65k – $81kPro · early access

Senior Equipment Operator - Streets

NEW

City of Harker Heights · Onsite · Harker Heights, TX, USA

58 · GoodCompressed Work Week$44kPro · early access

Maintenance Technician

NEW

Merck · Hybrid · Vitré, France

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Water Lead Worker

NEW

City of Fullerton · Onsite · Fullerton, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$72k – $91k

Plumber

City of Henderson · Onsite · Henderson, NV, USA

73 · GreatCompressed Work Week

2027 Technical Intern - Midstream Instrumentation & Electrical Technician

Phillips 66 · Onsite

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Wastewater Utility Worker I

City of Alhambra · Onsite · Alhambra, CA, USA

58 · GoodCompressed Work Week$55k – $72k

Electrical & Instrumentation Technician I-III

Inland Empire Utilities Agency · Onsite · Chino, CA, USA

58 · GoodCompressed Work Week$94k – $147k

E&I Technician

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Burley, ID, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Maintenance on this page include 25hours Hotels, City of Harker Heights, and Phillips 66. Maintenance 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 Maintenance is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Maintenance roles span the full seniority range — we list 56 open roles requiring Maintenance 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 — Maintenance 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. Maintenance 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 Maintenance 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 Maintenance on current listings.

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Browse 53+ maintenance jobs at companies offering 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights—for a better work-life balance. 19 new this week. Hiring companies include 25hours Hotels, City of Harker Heights, and Phillips 66.

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