SCOPE OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING IN INDIA

I have written about production engineering in my previous post. First you have to understand the fact that production B.Tech is equivalent to mechanical B.Tech. So you can apply for mechanical job posts. May be you are worried because there is no news of job openings for production engineers in South India. This is because in south India, companies fill the posts for production engineers with mechanical engineers. This doesn't mean they do not take production engineers. It is just due to lack of production engineers. This is because there is just less colleges in south India which gives production B.Tech degree. But in north India companies need only production engineers to fill production posts. So scope is not less because you can fill both production and mechanical posts. Its best to get work experience of 2 years in a company and then try for a job abroad. The pay scale will be more and it is easy to get settled there. 
     
Scope of production engineering is much more than you can think. Usually in multinational companies a production engineer controls a manufacturing department etc. That means mechanical engineers comes under a production engineer. Please don't misunderstand that a mechanical engineer is below a production engineer. It is just that a production engineer with high grade pay always comes top(in the management area). 

There are lot of openings in different countries. Experience is the base of all.Try to get more experience, then job offers and pay scale increases. A few fields where production engineer get placed are :

• Automobile companies- For inspection, quality control, operation of automated equipments etc.
• Manufacturing industries- For inspection, quality control, operation of automated equipments, to control assembly line, production management etc.
• Food processing industries- For inspection, quality control, Production management etc.
• Railways- Manufacturing processes and its control etc.
• Process industries.
• Space and other research organizations.
• Government and private companies.
• Defense.
• IT companies.

Each subject that you study during your course can get you a job and therefore focus a little on the concepts and during the course you will certainly love a subject or two. For example i fell in love with Industrial Automation and Inspection & Quality control. Therefore i understood what kind of jobs i should seek and so i searched and found a few companies relating to my interests. I kept visiting those sites to see notifications of job openings. One thing i understood is that you should have a good profile. Every student undergoes internship during their course and for you to be unique and to get an upper hand in placements its always better to do internship abroad during your engineering course. There are a lot of companies in India and around the world who hires production engineers.

I will mention a few companies who requires production engineer :

1. NALCO
2. SAIL
3. TATA STEEL
4. TCIL
5. TATA MOTORS
6. VOLVO
7. SYNTHITE
8. ONGC
9. FACT
10. ISRO
11. AIRFORCE (TECHNICAL ENGINEER)
12. HAL etc.

I haven't mentioned any IT companies because all IT companies take engineers( irrespective of their branch).  You can also go for higher studies to make your career firm. It is always beneficiary for a production engineer to opt MBA as his higher studies. I as a production engineer prefer MBA because we mainly get placed in production management etc. It is because unlike other branches production involves a lot of management. So MBA is going to help you a lot. Its better to get a work experience of 2 years in a manufacturing or core company and then go for MBA. If you have a work experience of 3 years in any manufacturing or core companies then you can also go for executive MBA which unlike other MBA's can be completed in 1 year( because of your work experience).

But If you are interested in the technical side so much then you can go for M.Tech. You should write GATE exam and obtain good score to do M.Tech in IIT's and NIT's in India. You also need good GATE score to get placed in core companies such as BHEL, SAIL, NTPC etc( Navaratna companies). But If you are going for M.Tech i highly recommend to do it in IIT's or NIT's. You can also do MS in India and abroad as well. M.Tech mainly consists of engineering while MS consists of engineering and research (a lot). The scope of doing MS abroad is so high(especially in Europe). The facility is great and the research over there is too good. The basic criteria to do MS abroad is write Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and get a good score. Next is English proficiency tests such as IELTS, TOEFL etc. Get atleast 6.5 out 9 to get admissions in  college abroad. To do MS in US or UK is too high its not easy to extend your visa after your course. But you can also do post graduation cheaply but with more value.

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