Offshore Operations & Maintenance Lead

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24.07.2025

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What does the job involve?

Responsible for Safe Work practices, delivery, and safe execution of planned and approved reactive Maintenance scopes. Leading operational teams relating to Wind Farm, safety, emergency preparedness, response, asset monitoring and associated topics regarding equipment, tools, and systems used to maintain assets operationally and for production output.. Includes identification and evaluation of operational risks and setting operational performance targets and measures. May include oversight/scheduling of a preventative maintenance program and maintenance related functional activities as job planning, scheduling, shift control, performance monitoring and liaisons with operations groups to ensure equipment/plant scheduled downtimes are coordinated effectively.

You are utilizing your knowledge independently and empowering a small highly competent team to deliver safe execution of maintenance tasks offshore. Ability to solve highly complex tasks with a short to medium-term tactical impact/risk with a reduced impact on the logistical requirements. You address key business challenges that align with Equinor's short and long-term strategy by setting targets and executing work for your team, which you lead, or by defining and delivering services for a specific area. You may oversee a project/task within a wider portfolio. You independently lead communication with stakeholders across the business as well as with partners and external parties. You facilitate the decision-making processes. You oversee execution of improvement agendas, and coach others to embrace change and ambiguity. You demonstrate flexibility to adopt new activities/ways of working that are highly complex and actively communicate to others on how to do so. You follow and comply with safety, ethics, and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values.

This position involves supporting teams of wind turbine technicians offshore in a rotating 14-day vessel-based operations that include leadership, guidance, and asset performance management. This role reports to the Plant Director.

What will my tasks be?

Within this position, your key tasks will be to:

This role will initially be supporting the external vendor (responsible for the construction of the offshore assets), as the equinor representative on the Service Operation Vessel, prior to Operations.

Average Hourly Salary - $52.00 / $86.00

Offshore Shift - 14x14 (2 weeks offshore, 2 weeks onshore leave)

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:

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 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.

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?