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Careers in Visakhapatnam 2026

Vizag's economy runs on steel, sea, and a growing IT layer. Find your place in it.

HPCL Vizag Refinery, Eastern Naval Command, RINL Vizag Steel, Tech Mahindra, Pegasystems, Conduent, Aurobindo Pharma, Divi's Laboratories — Visakhapatnam has one of India's most diverse employer stacks outside a metro. Free trait check to find your best-fit role.

Heavy industry + defence careers covered

HPCL refinery, RINL Steel, Navy establishments, and BHPV — Vizag's defence and industrial corridor employs tens of thousands of technical and management professionals. Roles from petroleum engineering to naval logistics all scored against your traits.

IT and pharma pivot paths mapped

Tech Mahindra, Pegasystems, Conduent, Aurobindo, and Divi's are building significant Vizag operations. Both engineering-to-IT and engineering-to-pharma pivot routes scored against your analytical and verbal trait scores.

Vizag-specific salary bands included

Vizag salaries differ from Hyderabad and Chennai in predictable ways by sector. Each matched role shows the INR band for Vizag specifically — not a national average.

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Engineering

Petroleum Engineer (India)

Find, drill, complete, and produce oil and natural gas safely and economically across Indian onshore basins (Krishna-Godavari, Cauvery, Cambay, Assam, Rajasthan, Vindhyan), offshore fields (Mumbai High, KG offshore), and the smaller acreages awarded under the OALP rounds. The work is split across reservoir engineering (volumetric estimates, decline-curve analysis, reservoir simulation in Eclipse / CMG, well-test interpretation, IOR / EOR studies), drilling engineering (well design, casing and cementing programmes, mud and fluids design, directional and ERD planning, rig operations supervision), completions and production engineering (perforation strategy, artificial lift design with ESPs / gas lift / SRPs, sand control, water and gas handling), and the surface side (separators, compression, pipelines, OISD-led process safety, regulatory liaison with the DGH, MoPNG, and PNGRB). In India the role lives at a small, concentrated set of employers — ONGC and Oil India on the PSU side, Reliance KG-D6 and Reliance E&P, Cairn Oil & Gas (Vedanta), HOEC, Selan Exploration, Adani's joint ventures, the BP-merged former Reliance-BP partnership, and a handful of OFS / oilfield-services majors operating in India (Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Weatherford, Shell India). The Indian Institute of Mines (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad is the country's premier petroleum-engineering institute, with Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) Gandhinagar, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Jais, IIT Madras, and IIT Bombay also feeding the field.

Peak

₹70.0L

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Mechanical Engineer (India)

Design, simulate, manufacture, and validate the mechanical systems that keep Indian industry running — automotive engines and chassis, industrial pumps and compressors, HVAC systems, machine tools, defence and aerospace assemblies, robotics and automation, oil-and-gas equipment, and the consumer durables Indian households buy. Day-to-day work spans CAD modeling in SolidWorks / CATIA V5 / Creo / NX; running FEA in ANSYS / Abaqus / Hypermesh; CFD in Fluent / OpenFOAM; manufacturing process planning, GD&T tolerancing, and BOM generation; vendor and supplier-development engineering; quality and reliability work to PPAP / APQP / ISO standards; and shop-floor support during pilot and ramp-up phases. The Indian market is huge and bifurcated — service / engineering R&D companies (TCS, Infosys BPM Engineering, L&T Technology Services, HCL Tech, Wipro Engineering, Tata Elxsi, Quest Global, Cyient) doing offshored R&D for global OEMs, and direct manufacturing OEMs (Tata Motors, Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, Royal Enfield, Bharat Forge, BHEL, ISRO, DRDO, HAL, Kirloskar, Cummins India, Voltas, Blue Star, Carrier Midea India). Specialization tracks (design, FEA/CFD, manufacturing, quality, plant maintenance, project engineering) diverge by year 3-4.

Peak

₹45.0L

Technology

Data Analyst

Data Analysts turn raw business data into decisions. The day-to-day work spans writing SQL on a warehouse to answer specific business questions, building Tableau / Power BI / Looker dashboards that PMs and ops teams actually use, sizing a problem with quick exploratory analysis, running A/B test reads, and translating findings into 1-page memos that non-technical stakeholders can act on. In India, Data Analyst is the most common 'first analytics job' for graduates from B.Tech, BCA, B.Com, and BBA backgrounds — it sits at TCS, Accenture, Cognizant, EY-Parthenon, ZS Associates, Mu Sigma, and Tiger Analytics for the services side, and at every product unicorn (Flipkart, Swiggy, Razorpay, Cred, PhonePe, Meesho), fintech, and D2C brand on the product side.

Peak

₹40.0L

Operations

IT Project Manager

IT Project Managers plan, execute, and close technology projects — from ERP rollouts and infrastructure migrations to custom software delivery for clients — within defined scope, timeline, and budget constraints. In India, the role is dominant in IT services firms (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, HCL Technologies) where PMs manage client-facing delivery under T&M or fixed-price contracts, and increasingly in product companies (Razorpay, PhonePe, Freshworks) where the title is often Programme Manager or Delivery Manager. Unlike a Product Manager (who owns the why and the roadmap) or a Scrum Master (who facilitates the Agile ceremony), the IT PM owns the triple constraint — scope-time-cost — and is accountable to the client or sponsor for delivery governance, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication from project initiation to post-go-live support handoff. PMP from PMI and PRINCE2 are the most recognized credentials in the Indian IT services context; CSM or SAFe certifications matter in Agile-heavy product companies.

Peak

₹60.0L

HealthcareNew

Drug Safety / Pharmacovigilance Officer

Drug Safety Officers — also called Pharmacovigilance (PV) Officers — are the people who track, assess, and report adverse drug reactions (ADRs) after a medicine is on the market. In India the field is dominated by two streams: KPO/BPO PV operations (Cognizant LifeSciences, Accenture PV, TCS BPS, Wipro PV) that process global ICSR (Individual Case Safety Report) volumes on behalf of Big Pharma, and in-house PV departments at multinationals and domestic majors (Pfizer India, Novartis, GSK, Sun Pharma, Cipla). Core workflow is ICSR intake from spontaneous reports, literature, and clinical trials → MedDRA coding of adverse events → narrative writing → submission of 15-day expedited reports and periodic aggregates (PSUR/PBRER) to USFDA, EMA, and CDSCO / PvPI. Entry requires B.Pharm / Pharm.D / M.Sc Life Sciences; a certified PV course (ISPOR/ISOP or provider certifications) significantly accelerates hiring.

Peak

₹35.0L

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