Kristian Malde Gilje

Kristian Malde Gilje is a Principal Engineer at Equinor, specializing as a Valve Specialist within the Project Valve Group since November 2023. Prior to this role, Kristian worked at Subsea7 in various capacities, including Principal Engineer and Senior Engineer focused on Subsea Valves from June 2022 to October 2023. Kristian also served as a Senior Valve Engineer at Aibel from May 2019 to May 2022. Earlier experience includes roles at Score Group plc as a Sales Engineer, Engineer, and Contract Focal Point from January 2015 to April 2019, and at Apply Sørco AS as a Junior Structural Engineer and Structural Engineer from 2013 to January 2015. Internship experiences include a summer position at Global Maritime in 2012, conducting mooring analysis, and at COSL Drilling Europe AS, where fieldwork involved tagging systems onboard COSL Pioneer. Kristian holds a Master's degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), earned between 2008 and 2013.