Technical Function Roles at ITC

More than 200 factories, best-in-class technology, state-of-the-art facilities, diversity in roles, processes and in businesses make ITC a dream company for professionals pursuing a career in technical function. ITC recruits the best engineering minds from both premier engineering campuses across the country and directly from the market for roles in its technical function. The objective of ITC's Technical function is to service the market with world-class products and huge investments are made continuously to remain at the cutting edge of technology and most importantly, towards the enrichment and development of our human capital. ITC visits premier engineering campuses (IITs and select NITs) to induct "techno-managers" into the technical function. In ITC responsibility comes early. These roles can range from operations, maintenance, engineering, project management and logistics. The role can involve heading a small department having 100-150 employees or managing a project involving substantial capital expenditure or managing the supply chain and logistics. The roles also include managing the maintenance activities for the plant or can be in the core engineering area. Therefore, each role has a different flavour of its own and therefore its challenges and learning opportunities. For professionals recruited from the market roles are offered in keeping with the nature and length of their experience. The roles range from entry level roles to the ones which involve management of entire departments such as Production or Engineering. In the technical function, you will be rotated across these roles to provide you with wider exposure and an overall business perspective. Based on performance and potential, you will be moved up to head a department having a size of more than 500 employees as early as 2-3 years from the date of joining the Company. From there again based on merit, you will be given the opportunity of becoming the head of an entire engineering department of the factory or the production department and going forward the opportunity to head an entire factory.

ITC is a diversified conglomerate with businesses spanning FMCG, Hotels, Paperboards & Packaging, Agri-Business and Information Technology. ITC is one of India's foremost private sector companies with a market capitalization of over $50 billion and a turnover of over $10 billion.