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Safety Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ safety jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and compressed weeks—for a better work-life balance. 10 new this week. Hiring companies include DOF, Marathon Petroleum, and Syracuse University.

Schedules on this page

9-day fortnights 10
compressed weeks 3
summer Fridays 1
generous PTO 3
best places to work 2

Updated September 9, 2026

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Engineer - Trust and Safety

3mo

VRChat · Remote · Worldwide

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Maintenance Technician

NEW

20h

25hours Hotels · Onsite · Paris, France

69 · Good4 Day Work WeekPro · early access

Associate Manufacturing - Bulk Drug Substance Upstream

NEW

16h

Amgen · Onsite · Holly Springs, NC, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTOPro · early access

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AB | Skandi Hugen

NEW

23h

DOF · Onsite · Storebø, Norway

60 · Good9 Day FortnightPro · early access

Measurement Technician

NEW

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Carlsbad, NM, USA

58 · Good9 Day FortnightPro · early access

Appointed Person Lifting

NEW

19h

Costain · Onsite · Plymouth, UK

58 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Labourer

Livingstone Shire Council · Onsite · Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia

67 · Good9 Day Fortnight$71k

AB | Skandi Sandefjord

DOF · Onsite · Storebø, Norway

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Field Technician, Pegasus/Roberts Ranch Midstream

Phillips 66 · Onsite · Odessa, TX, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$63k – $99k

River Engineer 4

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Catlettsburg, KY, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Student Leader Culinary Services Staff

Ohio University · Hybrid · Athens, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Terminal Operator

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Louisville, KY, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

2nd Officer Skandi Seven

11d

DOF · Onsite · Storebø, Norway

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Content Policy & Safety

4mo

Spotify · Hybrid · London or Stockholm

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Climbing Wall Attendant

1mo

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Temporary Personal Trainer

3mo

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Solar O&M Technician

1mo

Solar Landscape · Onsite · Chicago, IL, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays

Component Engineer - Electromechanical

1mo

Arista Networks · Onsite · Santa Clara, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$120k – $180k

AB/Crane Driver

14d

DOF · Onsite · Storebø, Norway

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Board Operator

14d

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Jal, NM, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Safety on this page include DOF, Marathon Petroleum, and Syracuse University. Safety 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 Safety is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Safety roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Safety 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 — Safety 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. Safety 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 Safety 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 Safety on current listings.