Updated August 10, 2026

23 open positions

Safety Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 23+ safety jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 10 new this week. Hiring companies include DOF, Merck, and Parsons Corporation.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Engineer - Trust and Safety

2mo

VRChat

RemoteWorldwide

63 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

AUT Operator

3mo

Applus+

RemoteNetherlands

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO€3,300 – €4,600/mo

Tunnel Engineer (TBM Specialist Survey Engineer)

Parsons Corporation

HybridDubai, United Arab Emirates

70 · Great9 day fortnight

AB Skandi Skansen

DOF

OnsiteStorebø, Norway

60 · Good9 day fortnight

Operator

Merck

HybridBoxmeer, Netherlands

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Operator (Day Shift)

Merck

OnsiteBoxmeer, Netherlands

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Sr Director Construction Management Services

Parsons Corporation

HybridHuntsville, USA

70 · Great9 day fortnight$177k – $332k

Sr Specialist, Facilities Engineering

L3Harris Technologies

OnsiteClifton, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$92k – $171k

Operator

Merck

OnsiteBoxmeer, Netherlands

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Board Operator

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteBulger, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Able Seaman

DOF

OnsiteStorebø, Norway

60 · Good9 day fortnight

Climbing Wall Attendant

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Sr. Supervisor, Manufacturing - Small Scale Purification

Biogen

HybridResearch Triangle Park, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$98k – $127k

Maintenance Technician (m/f/d)

3mo

25hours Hotels

OnsiteBerlin, Germany

69 · Good4 day week100% pay

CROF Rail Loader

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteAnacortes, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Maintenance Technician

11d

Sanofi

HybridWaterford, Ireland

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO€42k – €55k

Component Engineer - Electromechanical

10d

Arista Networks

OnsiteSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$120k – $180k

Fuel Cycle Operations Engineer

12d

Helion

OnsiteEverett, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$114k – $157k

Temporary Personal Trainer

2mo

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Solar O&M Technician

19d

Solar Landscape

OnsiteChicago, USA

60 · Good4 day week during Summer

Principal System Design Engineer

4mo

General Dynamics UK

OnsiteOakdale, UK

60 · Good9 day fortnight£59k – £80k

Ordinary Seaman

DOF

OnsiteStorebø, Norway

60 · Good9 day fortnight

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 Safety on this page include DOF, Merck, and Parsons Corporation. 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 23 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.