Sail Rourkela Steel Plant

You can find our office on the 6th floor of the Admin Building inside the Rourkela Steel Plant. It’s a big grey building and the elevators are usually a bit slow, especially during the shift changes. Up here, it’s mostly just desks, computers, and a lot of filing cabinets. We handle the administrative side of things, so there is always a mountain of paperwork to get through. It’s quite different from the actual plant floor where all the noise is. From the windows on the sixth floor, we can see the tall chimneys and the smoke. It feels very industrial. We spend a lot of our day in meetings or just typing away at reports. The air conditioning is okay, but it gets a bit stuffy when there are too many people in the room. We have our small tea breaks where we talk about the news or what’s happening in the city. It’s a lot of routine work, checking numbers and making sure all the records are in order for the plant operations. It’s a huge place and sometimes it feels like we are just a small part of a giant machine. There’s a lot of walking involved just to get from one department to another. We just come in, do what needs to be done, and head home when the bell rings. It’s just steady, quiet office life in the middle of a very loud industry.