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Manufacturing & Production

Production Engineer

Production and industrial engineers plan how things are made: process layouts, work study, capacity, quality systems, maintenance schedules and cost reduction on the shop floor.

Read this first. This page rests on one dated pay figure from a named source. That is evidence of what that source states, not of what Production Engineer roles pay across India.

What the work is

Employers include manufacturers, automobile and component makers, process industries, and mining and power PSUs. The figure on this page is Coal India's Management Trainee (Industrial Engineering).

How people enter it

  1. An engineering degree

    A B.E. or B.Tech in production, industrial or mechanical engineering.

  2. PSU trainee posts

    Coal India recruits Management Trainees in Industrial Engineering through its own computer-based test.

  3. Quality and lean methods

    Six Sigma and lean training are common in manufacturing jobs.

What the pay figures say

One dated figure is on file. It comes from an employer's own notice. It took effect on 5 May 2026. Each card says what the figure is; open "How the figure is read" for the method and what it leaves out.

Coal India Limited · Management Trainee (Industrial Engineering), E-1₹7,20,000 a year

Basic pay × 12: ₹60,000 per month (E-1, IDA) One Maharatna PSU, E-1 grade entry

Employer noticeCoal India Advt. 03/2026, Management Trainees (CBT-26) · effective 5 May 2026
How the figure is read

Management Trainee (Industrial Engineering): E-1 grade, initial basic ₹60,000 per month × 12; scale ₹60,000–1,80,000 (IDA). Starting basic pay × 12; excludes DA, HRA, perquisites and PRP.

Limits. One employer; basic pay only. Industrial Engineering discipline mapped to the production/industrial engineering role.

Coal India Limited — Advertisement No. 03/2026, Management Trainees (CBT-26)

What changes the pay

Questions

What do the Production Engineer posts on this page pay?

Coal India Limited, Management Trainee (Industrial Engineering), E-1: Basic pay × 12: ₹60,000 per month (E-1, IDA), recorded here as ₹7,20,000 a year (Coal India Advt. 03/2026, Management Trainees (CBT-26)).

Is that the take-home pay?

No. A figure given as basic pay leaves out dearness allowance, house rent allowance and the other allowances paid on top of it, and it is before income tax and provident fund or NPS deductions. The CTC breakup calculator on this site works out a monthly in-hand figure from a CTC.

Is industrial engineering the same as production engineering?

They overlap. Production engineering centres on manufacturing processes; industrial engineering on how people, machines and materials are organised. Employers often accept either degree for production posts, and this site counts Coal India's Industrial Engineering trainee post under this role.

Evidence

All 1 figure in one table
FigureStatisticPeriodEffectiveKindConf.Source
₹7,20,000employer-bandCoal India Advt. 03/2026, Management Trainees (CBT-26)2026-05-05 freshemployer-data0.75Coal India Limited — Advertisement No. 03/2026, Management Trainees (CBT-26)

One employer; basic pay only. Industrial Engineering discipline mapped to the production/industrial engineering role.

Aliases this role answers to

production engineer · manufacturing engineer · process engineer manufacturing · shift engineer · industrial engineer

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