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Last Updated: June 15, 2026

Operator Refinery

556.427 kr. (DKK)/yr

267,51 kr. (DKK)/hr

12.353 kr. (DKK)/yr

The average operator refinery gross salary in Denmark is 556.427 kr. or an equivalent hourly rate of 268 kr.. In addition, they earn an average bonus of 12.353 kr.. Salary estimates based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Denmark. An entry level operator refinery (1-3 years of experience) earns an average salary of 395.899 kr.. On the other end, a senior level operator refinery (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary of 621.831 kr..

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Salary Potential

604.460 kr. (DKK)

9 %

Based on our compensation data, the estimated salary potential for Operator Refinery will increase 9 % over 5 years.

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Operator Refinery, the majority at 100% with high schools.

Typical Field of Study: Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology Training

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Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countri

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Job Description
Assesses specifications and controls continuous operation of petroleum refining and processing units to produce products, such as gasoline, kerosene, and fuel and lubricating oils, by such methods as distillation, absorption, extraction, adsorption, thermal and catalytic cracking and reforming, polymerization, isomerization, coking, visbreaking, and alkylation. Reads processing schedules, operating logs, test results of oil samples, and laboratory recommendations to determine changes... in equipment controls required to produce specified quantity and quality of product. Moves and positions controls, such as knobs, valves, switches, levers, and index arms, on control panels to control process variables, such as flows, temperatures, pressures, vacuum, time, catalyst, and chemicals, by automatic regulation and remote control of processing units, such as heaters, furnaces, compressors, exchangers, reactors, quenchers, stabilizers, fractionators, rechargers, absorbers, strippers, debutanizers, stills, and towers.Read More
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