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02.07.2026

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What does the job involve?

Ship Operator with responsibility for planning, scheduling, and managing the shipments of commodities (crude oil and oil products) within the waterborne tanker segment.

As a Ship Operator, you are utilizing your knowledge to independently solve complex tasks with a short-term operational risk. You independently communicate within the immediate team, across different areas, and towards key stakeholders, including partners or external parties. You adhere to established procedures and identify as well as resolve challenges. You proactively seek continuous improvement, embrace change and ambiguity. You demonstrate flexibility to adopt new activities and ways of working and take ownership of your own work. You follow and comply with safety, ethics, and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values.

What will my tasks be?

Within this position, your key tasks will be to:

• Manage and optimize the transportation of assigned commodities in the energy portfolio, ensuring efficient flow assurance.  

• Plan and schedule the transport of oil commodities, ensuring timely delivery and minimizing disruptions in close coordination with traders, chartering, cargo operations, vetting and other internal and external stakeholders. 

• Coordinate with shippers, agents, port authorities, bunker suppliers, and terminals to manage scheduling changes and ensure smooth operations.  

• Stay updated on industry trends, shipping sustainability and regulations incl. tariffs and sanctions, related to energy transportation and flow assurance.  

• Responsible for correct, timely updates of relevant operational and reporting systems. 

• Participating in the on-call duty system within the operation team. 

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:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Maritime, Economics, Logistics, or related disciplines.

• Experience from trading operations from an oil company, trading house or ship- owner is an advantage.  

• Minimum 5-7 years of operational experience as a ship operator for oil tankers (MRs to VLCCs).

• Familiar with both CPP / DDP tanker operations / segments. 

• Familiar with using IT technology, IMOS and other (voyage) systems is an advantage. 

• Interest for- and knowledge about alternative fuels, regulatory requirements etc.is an advantage.

• Proficiency in English language is required; Mandarin is an advantage. 

• Personal attributes:

• High ethical awareness and integrity, and with focus on safe operations and HSE. 

• Proactive, flexible, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  

• Applying strong commercial mindset in supporting the charterer and traders PnL targets.  

• Capable to work under pressure and tight deadlines, agile and efficient working attitude. 

Personal qualities:

• High ethical awareness and integrity, with focus on safe operations and HSE.

• Proactive, flexible and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Capable to work under pressure and tight deadlines, agile and efficient work attitude.

• Commercial mindset with proven track record in delivering value add to the P&L.

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. 

We also believe everyone should be paid fairly and consistently for their contribution to our collective success.  To ensure fairness and transparency, positions at Equinor are evaluated using our global job architecture based on the position’s responsibilities, complexity, and impact, and regularly reviewed to ensure consistency and alignment across the organisation.

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 25,000 colleagues working in more than 20 countries. We’re up for the challenge. Are you?