IIT Guwahati: 7 Project Posts, Lab Attendant Open to Class 10 Pass

Seven Posts, One of Each

Post	Pay a month	With 20% HRA	Essential qualification
Project Manager	₹55,000	₹66,000	B.E/B.Tech with 8 years’ experience, M.Tech/M.Sc with 5 years, or PhD with 2 years
Project Engineer	₹47,000	₹56,400	PhD, master’s with 3 years, or bachelor’s with 6 years
Associate Project Engineer	₹38,000	₹45,600	Master’s in engineering or technology, or bachelor’s with 3 years
Assistant Project Engineer	₹28,500	₹34,200	B.E/B.Tech in Chemical Engineering
Plant Operator	₹26,800	₹32,160	ITI or diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Instrumentation or Production
Lab Assistant	₹25,000	₹30,000	Class 10 or 12, ITI or diploma
Lab Attendant	₹14,250	₹17,100	Class 10 or 12, ITI or diploma

The HRA column is our arithmetic from the 20% the advertisement lists against each post.

The Class 10 Posts, and the Experience They Prefer

For the Lab Assistant, six years of laboratory or industrial experience is “preferred”. It isn’t a condition, but with one seat, expect someone who has those years to get it. The Lab Attendant notice mentions experience as preferred without naming any number of years, so that’s the realistic one for a school leaver.

Both jobs mean cleaning glassware and equipment, labelling and storing samples, handling waste and spills, and keeping the lab and pilot plant tidy. The notice says you must be fit for routine material handling.

The Plant Operator runs batch and continuous pyrolysis reactors in rotating shifts, which can mean nights. Two years’ experience is preferred, and reactor, furnace or boiler work counts in your favour.

Applying on the R&D Portal

1. Open IIT Guwahati’s R&D recruitment portal (Online Application, linked below).
2. Search for the project title: “Design and Development of a Demonstration Plant for Production of Marketable Grade Green Activated Carbon from Bamboo Dust”.
3. Pick your post and submit before 5:30 PM on 4 November.

The advertisement number is IITG/II&SI/Project Staff Rectt-2026/159. Form problems go to proman@iitg.ac.in. Questions about the posts go to the project head, Prof. Senthilmurugan Subbiah, at senthilmurugan@iitg.ac.in or 0361 258 3527. Shortlisted people hear by email, and the portal shows your application status.

The portal loaded without trouble when we checked on 31 October. It’s the same portal that gave us a 502 error on 30 October while we were checking another IIT Guwahati post, so finish a day early.

Selection is on the interview alone, and it happens on Google Meet. If your data is patchy, test a Meet call on your phone before the 10th and find a spot with a steady signal. No travel allowance is paid.

IIT Guwahati also has one housekeeping post that needs no schooling, open until 6 November. More openings are on the jobs page.

Checked against IIT Guwahati advertisement No. IITG/II&SI/Project Staff Rectt-2026/159 and the R&D recruitment portal on 31 October 2026.