Production Technician

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23.02.2025

To ensure your application is considered, please submit it before this date. Note that the job advert will be removed on the indicated "end date" found on top of the advert. 

What does the job involve?Responsible for monitoring, controlling and optimizing the production process of energy with a focus on safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Work involves overseeing the operation of equipment, monitoring production levels, and minimizing waste. Conduct regular safety checks, maintain accurate records of production data, and diagnose production problems.

You are utilizing your knowledge in a specific area to carry out tasks that have a short-term operational impact/risk. You independently complete assigned work, either with guidance or by following well-defined guidelines and procedures, in order to achieve targets set by others that have an impact on your immediate team. You effectively communicate facts, practices, and policies to individuals within your immediate team and occasionally with external parties. You adhere to established procedures, identify and resolve challenges, seek continuous improvement, embrace change and ambiguity, and demonstrate flexibility to adopt new activities and ways of working.​ You follow and comply with safety, ethics, and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values.

FSU/FPSO experience but not essential.

What will my tasks be?

Within this position, your key tasks will be to:

• Perform Safe Work-related roles as defined in Equinor procedures with emphasis on area responsibilities and Implementation of isolation/de-isolation, leak testing and safe return to service of plant equipment. 
• Coordinate the implementation of plant preparation for maintenance as per operational procedures. 
• Operate assigned production systems and carryout area responsibilities as defined in the Equinor Management system. 
• Ensure a High level of awareness of Environmental compliance due to the nature of mariner oil. 
• Assist and work with specialised vendors who visit the platform, ensure that all tasks are completed correctly and safely. 
• Carry out Safety Critical tasks in accordance with defined performance standards for SECE, identify and raise failures through the SAP work process including close out with accurate history. 
• Provide comprehensive records and logs, as well as ensuring that effective handovers are carried out. 
• Carryout Emergency Response duties as identified in Emergency Response Plan, or as directed by the OIM. 

Here's what we expect from you:

At Equinor, there are some overall qualities we regard as essential. We want you to identify with the values that guide our decisions and help us succeed and grow: open, collaborative, courageous and caring. We expect you to make safety your priority and to contribute to our zero-harm culture. And for this specific position, we are also looking for:

• Experience working in an operational oil and gas engineering environment on or offshore. (FPSO or FSU experience desirable).
• Control Room Operator experience may be advantageous but not essential.
• Multi-disciplined qualifications in either mechanical, electrical, process, production, chemical of benefit.
• The ability to handle responsibility and occasional high work-loads, and delivers high quality work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to prioritise tasks whilst ensuring safe and efficient operations. 
• Ability to collaborate across departments and disciplines requiring good communication and interpersonal skills, developing trust, respect and team work within and out with own department. 
• Current UK offshore survival qualification desirable for an ongoing 2/3 offshore rotation.  
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken, with strong communication skills.

What can we offer you?

We want you to have a rewarding and fulfilling work life. That’s why we offer

Not just a job - a career

In Equinor, your development begins on day one. You will build your competence through a wide range of learning activities while being empowered to build your career across multiple disciplines and geographies. Our internal job market allows a wide range of opportunities for development and growth within your own field, or even in other areas you find interesting and relevant.

Attractive rewards

We give you a comprehensive benefits package with a competitive salary, global parental leave, bonus scheme and pension plan.

Wellness and work-life balance

We care about and prioritise our employees’ well-being. We know that for you to be the best version of yourself in the workplace, being able to collect your children, attend a class or simply enjoy social time can be invaluable. That’s why we encourage you to make use of our flexible work arrangements wherever possible.

An inclusive culture

We believe embracing our makes us stronger. For us, true means being able to bring your whole self to work, and for you and everyone else to feel accepted and valued.

Equal opportunities for everyone

Equinor is an equal-opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, termination, and training, without regard to , colour, , , , , , , , marital status, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status. 

As part of this commitment, reasonable adjustments will be made during the recruitment process for candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions. If you have any specific requirements, please clarify this in your application and our team will be in contact to see how we can support your needs. 

Important notes about the application process

We expect you to openly offer all relevant information about yourself during the recruitment process. Background checks are performed on all final candidates, and all permanent and temporary hires will be screened using relevant sanctions lists to ensure compliance with sanctions laws. When applying for a job in Norway you will be asked for information on affiliation to high-risk countries for a security assessment.

About Equinor

Equinor is an international energy company headquartered in Norway, energising the lives of 170 million people worldwide. Our ambition is to be a leading company in the energy transition and achieve net zero by 2050. Our task is enormous: supplying the world with the energy it needs, while lowering emissions to the atmosphere. To achieve it, we are looking for like-minded people to join our team of 22,000 colleagues working in nearly 30 countries. We’re up for the challenge. Are you?