Entry Level Qualification 

12

Career Fields 

Engineering & Technology

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

JEE MAIN BE/BTECH, JEE ADVANCED, GATE, BITSAT UG, VITEEE BE/BTECH, SRMJEEE BE/BTECH

About Career 

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will be involved in designing, operating and improving manufacturing or integrated systems of manufacturing. You will be researching and developing newer manufacturing technologies, systems and process for better utilisation of raw materials and other resources used in manufacturing.

You will be responsible for sourcing and procurement of manufacturing technologies; sourcing, selecting, purchasing & installation of machinery and equipment, commissioning of machinery and equipment and helping in the operations of manufacturing. Your job will include responding to breakdown, defects or investigating other errors that result in production problems.

Besides engaging in supervision tasks, you will also make improvements to current operations to enhance efficiency. When you work as a manufacturing engineer, you will also work with commercial and industrial designers so as to refine product design. You may also work with computer networks, robots, machine tools and material handling equipment for designing and modifying mechanical products.

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Search and locate product problems involving designs, materials, or processes.   

2. Investigate or resolve operational problems.

3. Implement changes to improve manufacturing processes or products, using technical knowledge and skill

4. Apply waste minimization methods to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, or cost-effectiveness.

5. Provide technical expertise or support.

6. Incorporate new manufacturing processes to improve existing operations.

7. Determine root causes of failures or recommend changes using statistical procedures.

8. Prepare reports summarizing information or trends related to manufacturing performance.

9. Design layout of equipment or workspaces to increase efficiency.

10. Supervise technicians, administrative staff, or other engineers.

11. Design or install  manufacturing equipment, and check for defects

12. Evaluate manufactured products according to quality standards.

13. Estimate costs, production times, or staffing requirements

14. Train production personnel in new or existing methods.

15. Test finished products to evaluate capabilities

16. Purchase equipment, materials, or parts.

17. Evaluate and develop manufacturing processes or practices for environmental sustainability.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics along with any other subject as per scheme of studies - BTech or B.E in Manufacturing & Production Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/Production Engineering

After your Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics along with any other subject as per scheme of studies, following which you are eligible to appear for various national (JEE mains), state and private entrance examinations for admissions in B.Tech. or B.E in Manufacturing & Production Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/Production Engineering.

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics along with any other subject as per scheme of studies - BTech or B.E in Manufacturing & Production Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/Production Engineering- M.Tech or M.E in Manufacturing & Production Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/ Production Engineering

After your Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics along with any other subject as per scheme of studies, following which you are eligible to appear for various national (JEE mains), state and private entrance examinations for admissions in Bachelor’s degree. Then you can move forward and opt for postgraduate degrees like M.Tech or M.E in Manufacturing & Production Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/ Production Engineering.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

After finishing Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies, you have to opt for Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics along with any other subject as per scheme of studies, after which you can begin to appear for entrance examinations to engineering courses for an engineering degree in Manufacturing Engineering. Then, after your JEE exams, you can opt for BTech or B.E in the following fields:

Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering

POST GRADUATION

After Graduation, if you wish to improve your job prospects, you can study further for a Masters or an MTech degree in manufacturing. Most of the Government colleges recruit students through a national exam called GATE. You can opt for M.Tech or M.E in any of the following studies:

Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Production Engineering. This will make you eligible for high-grossing jobs.
If you wish to study further, you can pick a research subject and go for a Doctorate (Ph.D.).
Some of the specializations available for Masters & Ph.D. courses are Mechatronics, Industrial Tribology, amongst others.

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Occupational Interests

1. Investigative: You should have interests for Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision making and problem-solving.

2. Realistic: You should have interests for Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment. 

3. Conventional: You should have interests for Conventional Occupations. Conventional occupations involve repetitive and routine tasks as well as fixed processes or procedures for getting things done. These occupations involve working more with data, systems, and procedures and less with ideas or creativity.

Abilities

1. Abstract Reasoning: The ability to understand ideas which are not expressed in words or numbers; the ability to understand concepts which are not clearly expressed verbally or otherwise.

2. Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic.

3. Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information from various sources, concepts, and theories to form general rules or conclusions. For example, analysing various events or situations to come out with a set of rules or conclusions

4. Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.

5. Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.

6. Mechanical Reasoning: The ability to apply basic physical principles and theories to understand how mechanical objects such as tools and machinery works and the ability to understand the rules or laws governing the work of machinery, tools and bodies in motion.

7. Numerical Reasoning: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and perform other basic numerical calculations correctly.

8. Spatial Ability: The ability to visualise three-dimensional objects by looking at the objects in paper or visualise objects mentally in three dimensions.

9. Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.

10. Verbal Reasoning: The ability to think and reason with words; the ability to reason out ideas expressed in words.

11. Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Knowledge

1. Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of various applications of one or more branches of Engineering Science & Technology to manufacture and produce various goods or construct or erect various structures. This include knowledge about design, development, prototype testing, manufacturing, construction, installation, repair and maintenance.

2. Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, statistics, and other mathematical disciplines and their applications.

3. Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production machinery, production systems, production processes, quality control, and other techniques for manufacturing or construction and distribution of goods.

4. Technical and Engineering Design: Knowledge of various techniques, methods, specifications and tools for creating, developing and laying out designs of various machines, equipment, devices, manufacturing plants, structures, systems and processes. This includes developing blueprints, drawing and models.

Skills

1. Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation and otherwise for application in getting work done.

2. Communication in English: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as well as verbally with others in English language.

3. Coordination: Skills in working together with other people to get things done.

4. Critical Thinking: Skills in the analysis of complex situations, using of logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

5. Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering the pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; taking appropriate and suitable decisions.

6. Operations and Process Analysis: Skills in the analysis of operations and processes such as industrial manufacturing, chemical processing, etc. so as to device better and more efficient operational processes and systems.

7. Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems and using the best option to solve the problems.

8. Process and Operation Controlling: Skills in controlling processes and operations of various machines, equipment, devices and systems using different types of electrical and electronic control instruments and systems.

9. Reading Comprehension: Skills in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

10. Supervising: Skills in Supervising and monitoring the performance of others, businesses, and different projects.

11. Technical: Skills in using various technologies and technical methods to get things done or solve problems.

12. Technical Design and Drawing:  Skills in creating and developing designs and drawings for various structures, machines, equipment, and devices.

13. Troubleshooting: Skills in determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

Personality

1. You are always or mostly organised in your day-to-day life and activities.

2. You always feel secure in your surroundings and in most situations.

3. You are imaginative sometimes.

4. You prefer to experience new things and have new experiences sometimes.

5. You act independently sometimes but do not do so in some other times.

6. You are friendly and outgoing sometimes, but not always. You prefer the company of people sometimes but not always.

7. You are always practical or in most situations.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

After completing your graduation with a Btech in Manufacturing/Production Engineering, you can get various entry-level jobs. You will enter a company as a Graduate Engineer Trainee. For better prospects, people also tend to for Masters degree. Then, you can get a job as an Assistant Engineer in a wide range of companies involved in industrial manufacturing such as an automobile, chemicals, consumer goods, industrial equipment and machinery, airplane, etc. Another job that you can get is:

Junior Time Scale (JTS)/ Assistant Director/ Research Officer (Grade IV) after clearing the IES (Indian Engineering Service) exam, after postgraduation

Some organizations where you can find a job: Godrej group, Ashok Leyland, Bajaj Auto, Videocon group, Apollo Tyres, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Nerolac Paints, Larsen & Toubro., etc.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Manufacturing engineers generally work in an office. However, they may have to visit sites when there is a special requirement or when any equipment requires close attention. Generally, engineers work as part of a team with other engineers, technicians, and other professionals. They have to work for 40 hours week which means normal working hours, though there could be frequent overtimes.

SPECIALISATION TRACKS IN THIS CAREER

1. Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing

Additive manufacturing is a method by which a digital 3D design data can be used to construct a product by adding layer after layer by using a depositing material. For example, a metal container can be built by adding layers of metals as per a 3D design of the container. In additive manufacturing, you can use a variety of materials like metals, composite materials and plastic to manufacture various products.

2. Computer Aided Manufacturing

Computer-aided manufacturing means the use of different kinds of software so as to control the tools of a machine and help in the manufacture of other workpieces. Computer aided manufacture happens just after computer aided design in which computers are used to create, modify, analyze and optimize a specific design.

3. Foundry & Forge Technology

Foundry, or casting, is a process wherein molten metal is poured into a predesigned mold where the metal solidifies to give rise to metal castings. It is different to forge in the use of pressure. Forging is concerned with heightening the strength of material, so when the molten metal is in semi solid state it is flattened or pressurised under a die.

4. Industrial Tribology

Tribology is essentially the study of interacting surfaces while in motion with respect to each other. It is the study of friction, lubrication and wear. Industrial Tribology uses principles of tribology to reduce loss during manufacturing processes by using lubrication and other techniques, thereby cutting down on the use of fuel and reducing wear and tear.

5. Maintenance Engineering

Maintenance engineering are individuals who apply different kinds of engineering concepts to maintain different equipments and achieve optimum production from them. As a maintenance engineer, you will have to ensure that the different equipments are working in the facility. Since machines have grown complex over a period of time, maintenance engineers are highly demanded.

6. Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering uses different engineering concepts, physics and mathematics to analyze, design and manufacture new machines or other mechanical systems. As a mechanical engineer, you must have the understanding of thermodynamics, materials science, electricity, structural analysis and mechanics.

7. Mechatronics Engineering

A Mechatronics engineer is someone who uses the principles of electronics, mechanics and computing so as to develop a reliable and economical system. An example is an industrial robot which uses mechanics, computing and electronic to to their day-to-day work.

8. Thermal Engineering

Thermal engineering manufacturing involves the use of engineering principles such as thermodynamics, heat flow to manufacture heating and cooling equipment to control temperature in an enclosed space or open space while cryogenics involve study of behavior of materials at very low temperature and their production at similar temperatures

9. Welding Engineering

Welding is defined as the process of using heat and pressure to fuse two seperate pieces of metal together, and a welding engineer concerns himself with all aspects of welding that lead to manufacturing a product.

CAREER GROWTH

At first, junior manufacturing engineers need to work under the supervision of senior engineers after their B.Tech. In the major companies, they will be employed as a Graduate Engineering Trainee where they will receive formal training.

With 2-3 years of experience and after doing a post-graduate degree, they can handle difficult projects as Assistant Engineer.

Eventually, with 8-12 years of experience, you can grow into the role of a or Senior Engineer and hand independent projects and supervise your team of engineers and technicians.

With about 15-20 years of experience, you can work as a Chief Engineer / Principal Engineer / Vice President or similar position.

Salary Offered  

You will find entry-level employment as a Graduate Engineer Trainee where you will earn Rs. 15,000 per month to Rs. 25,000 per month. From there, you can rise up to Junior level after getting 2-3 years of experience and earn from Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 50,000. After about 5-6 years of experience, you’ll be able to get a mid-level salary of somewhere in the range of Rs. 60,000 per month to Rs. 90,000 per month. If you decide to study further and obtain a Master’s degree, you’ll be qualified for even more high-end jobs and get a senior level salary which pays around  Rs, 1,00,000 to Rs. 5,00,000 per month or more after 12-15 years of experience.

MONTHLY EARNINGS IN INDIAN RUPEE 

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also in the near future, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and in some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job).

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Monitoring processes, systems, and performance: Observing and recording information on various criteria to monitor mechanical, electronics, electrical and other processes and systems; monitoring the progress of projects and tasks.   

2. Strategic planning: Developing visions and goals, developing strategies and action plans for achieving visions and goals.   

3. Working in a team: Working in a team of people; developing a team; maintaining professional relationships among team members.  

4. Using computers for work: Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and process information; for writing.   

5. Updating and using relevant knowledge: Keeping updated with the latest knowledge relevant to your fields of work and use of the relevant knowledge in getting things done.    

6. Assessing and evaluating quality: Assessing and evaluating the quality of materials, systems, processes, products, services, etc.

7. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc. or with people at large.    

8. Drawing, drafting, laying out and specifying objects, equipment, devices, tools, and systems: Creating and developing designs, drawings, layouts and specifications about how to construct, manufacture, assemble, build, use, and maintain various equipment, devices, tools, and systems.    

9. Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials: Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials to ascertain quality, performance, defects, causes of errors, etc.   

10. Organizing, planning and prioritizing tasks: Planning and organizing tasks in order to achieve work goals; prioritizing tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.  

11. Scheduling tasks: Scheduling project timelines, tasks and activities.