Textile engineering, being a creative and inventive field, offer several
career opportunities in diverse industrial sectors. With the entry of so many
units in the apparel and textile field, job prospects and opportunities have
increased. Textile engineers can find employment in departments of textile
companies varying from small to big in India as well as outside. Production
control, product research and development, process engineering, sales, and
corporate management and supervision are some areas to explore. Other career
options include technical sales, industrial engineering, marketing, customer
relations, human resources, and cost and inventory control.
Textile engineers can find attractive opportunities in textile mills, export
houses, knitwear manufacturing units, textile dyeing and printing units, and a
large number of government-sponsored and private silk, handloom, jute, khadi,
and craft development organizations. Typical employers include companies that
produce clothing, soft furnishings and other textile-based products, big fashion
retailers, design studios and consultancies. One with a degree in textile
engineering can work as operations trainee, technical services assistant in a
textile plant, process engineer, assistant designer in a design studio; quality
control supervisor, sales in charge, fabric development executive, process
improvement engineer etc. Graduates are recruited in large numbers by textile
giants like Arvind Mills Ltd., Bombay Dying, Raymond's, Fabindia, Grasim
Industries, JCT Limited, Lakshmi Mills, Mysore Silk Factory etc.
Textile engineers can also find jobs in cotton yarn manufacturing
corporations, and research laboratories for testing and quality control.
Manufacturing units of technical textiles like agro textiles and medical
textiles is another area of employment where textile engineers are in demand.
Another option is self employment, i.e. to start own textile manufacturing unit.
Teaching and research is another option for textile degree holders. They can
work as lectures in universities/ institutes teaching this subject. They can
develop new fiber or even new techniques for treatment of fibers.
