Career in Aerospace is one such industry which attracts those who want an exciting career with lots of scope to use their innovativeness globally. It’s a wide and the fastest growing industry which offers plethora of opportunities and positions for engineers, scientists, programmers/ IT professionals, maintenance workers, round the globe. Technologically development and growth in the areas like space exploration, aviation, military and commercial aircrafts, satellites, missiles, defense systems, are all sourced from this single industry. Moreover, the International Aerospace Industry employs huge number of qualified professionals of overseas, especially those who possesses potential knowledge base.

Job prospects and career scope in Aerospace industry:

Career scope in aerospace is extremely high demanding and rewarding both in India and in the international market; even now a days because of the trend of global recruitment and outsourcing the international aerospace organizations are hiring most of the technical professionals, engineers from countries like us. Aerospace professionals have a very high demand starting from the entry level to high leadership roles in the fields like, airlines, design & development programmes, maintenance, air turbine production plants, aircraft manufacturing units and so on. Not only that the professionals can also apply for industries like automobile, huge mechanical projects related to ships, trains and thousands of other segments. The areas of specialization require to start with the career in aerospace includes structural design, navigational guidance & control systems, instrumentation and communication or production methods. The aerospace engineers can further be employed in various other related fields like, R& D, Design, Test, Manufacturing and Management. Following are the national and international organizations like ISRO, VSSC, NASA, Goodrich Aerospace Co., Bell Helicopter Textron and so on.

Eligibility required for aerospace jobs:

To start with the career in aerospace one must possesses manual-technical-mechanical aptitude. Apart from these, to be an aeronautical engineer one must have either of the degrees like B.E, B.Tech, Diploma in Aerospace. There are many engineering colleges are available and specially, IITs are offering graduate and post-graduate degree courses. And various reputed polytechnic colleges are also offering Diploma courses.
There are certain other criteria to be fulfilled which are very important along from degrees, such as:

• Extremely good communication skill,
• Analytical precision,
• Expertise in problem solving and planning ability,
• Physical fitness with normal eye color vision
• Ability cum knack to work under pressure.

Remuneration in Aerospace jobs:

There are particular official scales for payment in government organizations/ public sector where the starting salaries, excluding the allowances, approximately start from Rs 8,000 – Rs 10,000 per month, but in private organizations the management decides the remuneration which varies between Rs 10,000 – Rs 40,000 per month plus perks for those having engineering degrees. And there are numerous fringe benefits for airline professionals. And, moreover, experience and exposure will increase the remuneration gradually.