North Development Program 2025 - Technical Safety Engineer

What does the job involve?

Responsible for developing and maintaining safety management elements in a life cycle context for major accident preventions, resulting in technical and organizational solutions to effectively eliminate, minimize, or otherwise mitigate risk to personnel, environment, and asset. The main disciplines are technical safety, safety risk assessment, human factors and organisational safety, operational safety, and emergency preparedness and equipment. Governance shall be based on technical and professional standards and relevant industry best practices, supported by state-of-the-art systems, processes, methods and tools to support decision making processes.

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 limited 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 as well as other work areas.

This position is part of the North Development program. You will receive a development and learning opportunity and be given stretch tasks and responsibility at an early stage. Your first three years in this role may see you on an exchange between our northern Norway locations.

What will my tasks be?

Within this position, your key tasks will be to:

Become either a Project Engineer or an Integrity Engineer, supporting operation, maintenance and modifications across our onshore plants in Norway: 

• As a Project Engineer your tasks include support, challenge, and follow-up of modification projects to improve safety, performance and quality in a cost- effective way. 
• As an Integrity Engineer your tasks include technical support to operations, and evaluation and follow up the integrity of technical safety barriers, systems and equipment on our plants. 
• Use your discipline expertise to solve challenges, and contribute to standardized solutions, competence building, continuous improvements, and best practices within technical safety. 

 Our Technical Safety competence center consists of over 40 highly competent and motivated technical safety experts that work with a varied set of tasks such as operational support, integrity management and follow-up of modifications and projects. We also have colleagues in our team working in the Safety Technology technical ladder across all of Equinor’s business areas. We offer many interesting opportunities for competence building through on-the-job learning, experience transfer and formal learning activities. Are you our new colleague? 

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:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in technical safety, or in another relevant technical discipline such as; process, mechanical or automation. Completed degree by no later than August 2025. 
• No more than 3 years' full-time work experience. 
• Some experience with technical integrity, maintenance or project support is a plus. 
• Experience or knowledge of all or some of the following technical safety areas of competence is advantageous: active fire protection, passive fire protection, escape, evacuation and rescue, and layout design principles and explosion barriers. 
• Experience with risk management (ALARP, HAZID, HAZOP), and ability to identify, communicate, and manage risk is a plus. 
• Fluency in a Scandinavian language (both written and spoken) and good communication skills in English. 
• Willingness to live in Hammerfest. 

Please be aware that final interviews for the positions within the North Development Program will take place in Harstad in the period March 19th - March 21st, 2025.

Please make sure that when applying, you attach the following:  

• Cover letter telling your motivation for this position in Northern Norway. 
• CV, diplomas/transcripts of records (or other documents describing subjects and grades) in English or Scandinavian language obtained to this point during your studies. If you are completing a degree, please upload an official temporary transcript. 

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, variable pay schemes and a share savings 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 differences makes us stronger. For us, true inclusion 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 race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, 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.