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PLC Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 44+ plc jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 18 new this week. Hiring companies include L3Harris Technologies, Merck, and United Launch Alliance.

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9-day fortnights 22
generous PTO 15
flexible hours 2
unlimited PTO 3
generous parental leave 1

Updated September 29, 2026

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Senior AI Controls Solutions Engineer (Australia/Singapore)

2mo

Phaidra · Remote · Australia or Singapore

65 · GoodFlexible Hours$125k – $214k

Senior AI Controls Solutions Engineer (HVAC Systems)

4mo

Phaidra · Remote · USA or Canada

65 · GoodFlexible Hours$108k – $190k

Manufacturing Solutions Engineer

1mo

Tulip Interfaces · Remote · Japan

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

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PS, Solution Architect (Armis/Veza)

1mo

ServiceNow · Remote · Madrid, Spain

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

New Product Introduction (NPI) Sourcing Manager, Data Center Power & Cooling

1mo

Anthropic · Remote · USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

Environmental Development Technician III

Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Onsite · Pasadena, CA, USA

68 · Good9 Day Fortnight$88k – $108k

Instrumentation & Controls Electrician

WaterNSW · Onsite · Orange, New South Wales +3 more

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$117k – $129k

Instrumentation & Controls Electrician

WaterNSW · Hybrid · Dubbo, New South Wales +3 more

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$116k – $129k

Principal Control Systems Engineer

Stanley Consultants · Hybrid · Austin, TX +5 more

65 · Good9 Day Fortnight$159k – $214k

Specialist, Manufacturing Engineering

L3Harris Technologies · Hybrid · Rochester, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Electric Propulsion Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation · Onsite · El Segundo, CA, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$100k – $176k

Lead, Automation Engineer

L3Harris Technologies · Hybrid · Huntsville or Camden, SC

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Specialist, Automation Engineering - 2nd Shift

Merck · Onsite · Rahway, NJ, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer- Automation

L3Harris Technologies · Onsite · Huntsville, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Automation Technician

ConocoPhillips · Onsite · Kermit, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Automation Senior Engineer II

Vertex Pharmaceuticals · Onsite · Boston, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$124k – $186k

Senior Specialist, Manufacturing Automation

Merck · Hybrid · Swords, Leinster, Ireland

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior Manufacturing Systems Engineer (DeltaV/PLC)

Amgen · Onsite · Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Principal Maintenance Specialist, Compounding and Filling - CVRM (Holly Springs)

Genentech · Onsite · Holly Springs, NC, USA

60 · GoodGenerous PTO$81k – $151k

Electrical Engineer

20d

United Launch Alliance · Onsite · Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight

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Employers hiring for Plc on this page include L3Harris Technologies, Merck, and United Launch Alliance. Plc 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 Plc is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Plc roles span the full seniority range — we list 44 open roles requiring Plc 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 — Plc 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. Plc 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 Plc 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 Plc on current listings.

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