Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest aluminium producer, marked Engineers’ Day by honouring the contributions of its 2,000+ engineers across Jharsuguda, Lanjigarh and Korba. With an average age of just 29-30 years, this workforce combines youthful energy with technical depth to power India’s metals and minerals sector.“Our engineers are the driving force behind our manufacturing excellence,” said Rajiv Kumar, CEO, Vedanta Aluminium.“From pioneering digital transformation to embedding sustainability into every process, their contributions go far beyond the factory floor.”
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Engineers at Vedanta Aluminium play a pivotal role in driving technological innovation, operational excellence and sustainable growth across India’s largest aluminium operations. Their expertise ensures efficiency, safety, and continuous improvement across complex smelting, refining, and power facilities. In Jharsuguda, Vedanta Aluminium has also achieved a historic milestone with its first women-operated aluminium potline in India. This initiative supports Vedanta’s vision of 30 per cent female workforce representation by FY2030. Suprita Nanda, Vedanta’s first female engineer in 2006, now leads projects worth INR 10 billion (USD 113.4 million), exemplifying how women engineers are increasingly taking leadership in mission-critical operations.
The engineers oversee operations of immense scale: the world’s largest smelting facilities in Jharsuguda, a world-class alumina refinery in Lanjigarh, BALCO in Chhattisgarh, and 5,500 MW of captive power capacity. Their multidisciplinary expertise i.e., spanning civil, chemical, mechanical, electrical, mining, and computer engineering, helps drive efficiency, safety, and sustainable growth. They are advancing projects like digital twin models for plant simulation and research into converting industrial waste into high-purity battery-grade graphite.
Vedanta invests deeply in the next generation through Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET) programmes, upskilling in AI, IIoT, and machine learning and partnerships with academia. On National Engineers’ Day 2023, Sunil Gupta, COO, affirmed, “Engineers are a cornerstone of our organisation. At Vedanta Aluminium, our commitment is to cultivate an environment that nurtures innovation and empowers them to shape the future.”
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