Updated July 26, 2026

28 open positions

Planning Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 28+ planning jobs at companies offering generous PTO and 9-day fortnights—full pay and a better work-life balance. 11 new this week. Hiring companies include Merck, Parsons Corporation, and Celonis.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Product Manager - Quality

Parsons Corporation

RemoteUSA

70 · Great9 day fortnight

Oracle Systems Implementation Consultant

3mo

Shape

RemotePhilippines

93 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Sr. Account Manager, Walmart

25d

e.l.f. Beauty

RemoteUSA

70 · GreatHalf day fridays

Manufacturing Planner

23d

Arista Networks

RemoteMexico

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Internal Audit Manager - Customer, Operations and OSPs

Phoenix Group

HybridEdinburgh or Birmingham

90 · Excellent4 day week80% pay£65k~£52k

Oracle Systems Implementation Lead (UK)

3mo

Shape

Hybrid

93 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Senior Planner

Parsons Corporation

HybridRiyadh, Saudi Arabia

70 · Great9 day fortnight

Research Support Manager

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic

15h

General Atomics

OnsiteSierra Vista, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Manager, Operations

Merck

HybridElkton, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Routine Maintenance Planner/Senior Routine Maintenance Planner - Electrical

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteRobinson, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Project Controls Specialist

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteRobinson, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Pharmacovigilance Specialist

Sanofi

HybridDiegem, Belgium

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Engineering Analyst

Sanofi

OnsiteSuzano, Brazil

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Traineeship Service Management

26d

AFAS Software

HybridLeusden, Netherlands

80 · Great4 day week100% pay

Customer Solution Specialist

Merck

HybridBelgrade, Serbia

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Lead Tech, Maintenance

Merck

HybridDurham, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Project Manager Science

Demaco

OnsiteNoord-Scharwoude, Netherlands

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Project Manager

Graphcore

HybridBristol, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Principal Silicon Verification Engineer

Graphcore

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Steam Fitter 'A'

2mo

Syracuse University

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Steam Fitter 'A'

2mo

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Assistant Planner

1mo

City of Carson

OnsiteCarson, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$89k – $113k

Intern Business Development

1mo

Celonis

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Intern Business Development (Nordic Market)

1mo

Celonis

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Social Media Assistant

2mo

Pattern

HybridPune, India

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Reporting Administrator

20d

abrdn

HybridKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Head of QC Operations & Planning

Merck

HybridVienna, Austria

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Planning on this page include Merck, Parsons Corporation, and Celonis. Planning 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 Planning is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Planning roles span the full seniority range — we list 28 open roles requiring Planning 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 — Planning 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. Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning on current listings.