IIPE Director Recruitment 2026

IIPE Director Recruitment 2026: Overview

Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), Visakhapatnam is recruiting a Director to head its academic and administrative work. The institute comes under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and holds Institution of National Importance status under an Act of Parliament. This is a contractual leadership appointment at its permanent campus in Vangali, Sabbavaram, in Andhra Pradesh's Anakapalli district.

IIPE's focus spans petroleum, hydrocarbons, energy, chemical engineering and related fields. The institute connects education, research and innovation with the energy sector's need for trained people and technological progress. Its permanent campus now hosts academic and administrative operations, with academic, research and residential infrastructure in place and further development continuing.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Contract tenure: The appointment is for five years, subject to the notice's age-based end condition. The earlier of these limits determines when the appointment ends.
• Institutional setting: You would head an institute established by the Government of India following the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. Its statutory status comes from the Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy Act.
• Serving applicants: If you work in a government department, autonomous body, university or public sector undertaking, your application must go through the proper channel. The notice also asks you to send an advance copy to the institute.

Application Submission Notes

Send your application by Registered Post or Speed Post to The Registrar, Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam, At Vangali, Sabbavaram, Anakapalli District, Andhra Pradesh 531035. Use the prescribed typed format and make your research, teaching, industry-academia collaboration and administrative achievements clear.

Mark the envelope in bold: APPLICATION FOR THE POST OF DIRECTOR, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND ENERGY (IIPE), VISAKHAPATNAM. You must also email a copy to dir_rec@iipe.ac.in and president@iipe.ac.in, preferably in MS Word format; the electronic copy accompanies the postal application.