Careers

Our CEO started as a QC manager.

He joined the trading business that became Sara Textiles, took it over, and has run the company for thirty-three years. That is not a line we keep because it is charming — it is how this place tends to work. A thousand people work at Nalagarh across three shifts, and most of the people running departments did not arrive running them.

Send a CV to careers@saratextiles.com, with the function you are after in the subject line. It is read whether or not anything is advertised — most of the people here arrived before there was a vacancy.

Two of the made-ups team checking folded white goods at the inspection table.
3
Locations
1,200+
People
6
Functions hiring
2003
Founded

What the plant does for the people in it

The plant nominated these itself when asked what the questionnaire had missed, and they are the things that make a careers page true rather than promotional.

A fire drill on the yard, an extinguisher discharging in front of the assembled shift.

Safety is a drill, not a poster

Fire drills are run on the yard with the shift watching, not described in an induction pack. Training sessions run in the plant's own classroom.

Drills
Monthly, and unannounced
Training
One hour a week, in the plant's own classroom
A health check at the plant, an employee's blood pressure being taken.

Health camps on site

A nurse and a doctor come to the plant rather than the other way round, which is the only version that gets used by people working three shifts.

Camps
Quarterly, run by a hospital under contract
Covered
250 employees at each camp

Getting here

Company buses run to the plant. For a site an hour and a half from Chandigarh, transport is not a benefit, it is the difference between a job being possible and not.

Buses
Three routes, 300 people a day

The numbers the plant wanted published

Women to men
One woman to every five men
CSR
At Bhatian village — the school playground, the gurudwara, drainage and roads