Updated August 3, 2026

27 open positions

Maintenance Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 27+ maintenance jobs at companies offering compressed weeks and 9-day fortnights—full pay and a better work-life balance. 10 new this week. Hiring companies include City of Harker Heights, Marathon Petroleum, and Syracuse University.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Field Service Specialist

Thales

HybridVancouver, Canada

96 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Field Service Specialist

Thales

OnsiteToronto, Canada

96 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Mechanical Maintenance Fitter and Turner

City of Gold Coast

OnsiteGold Coast, Australia

70 · Great9 day fortnight$3k

Plumber

Jigsaw Homes Group

HybridLeigh, UK

67 · GoodCompressed week£38k – £40k

Hotel Maintenance Technician

25hours Hotels

OnsiteFlorence, Italy

69 · Good4 day week100% pay€21k – €25k

MANUFACTURING DISCOVERY SPECIALIST

26d

Brightbeam

HybridWaterford, Ireland

82 · Great4 day week100% pay

Metallurgist

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteTexas City, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Refining Inspector

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteAnacortes, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight$107k – $160k

Electrical and Instrument Technician

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteMartinsville, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

EQUIPMENT OPERATOR 2

Ohio University

OnsiteAthens, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

PW Technician I-Wastewater

City of Forney

OnsiteForney, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$40k – $49k

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Application Developer

2mo

City of Henderson

HybridHenderson, USA

69 · GoodCompressed week$89k – $133k

Aerospace Technician

13d

United Launch Alliance

HybridVandenberg, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Solar O&M Technician (MD)

12d

Solar Landscape

OnsiteBaltimore, USA

60 · Good4 day week during Summer

Solar O&M Technician

12d

Solar Landscape

OnsiteChicago, USA

60 · Good4 day week during Summer

Beam Instrumentation Systems Lead

2mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Facilities Coordinator Weight Rooms

1mo

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Electronics Technician 'A'

1mo

Syracuse University

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Steam Fitter 'A'

2mo

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Second Engineer

17d

DOF

OnsiteParadise, Canada

60 · Good9 day fortnight

Heavy Equipment Operator - Water

19d

City of Harker Heights

OnsiteHarker Heights, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$43k

Light Equipment Operator - Streets

19d

City of Harker Heights

OnsiteHarker Heights, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$39k

Maintenance Technician - Wastewater

19d

City of Harker Heights

OnsiteHarker Heights, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$43k

AV Associate

1mo

Braze

HybridNew York City, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$65k – $81k

Test Engineering Technician

19d

Panthalassa

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$105k – $125k

Marine Tankerman

10d

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteCatlettsburg, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Mechanic

19d

City of Harker Heights

OnsiteHarker Heights, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$46k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Maintenance on this page include City of Harker Heights, Marathon Petroleum, and Syracuse University. 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 27 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.