Marbella opens thirteen municipal positions across three categories in three calls for applications

The Marbella City Council has announced thirteen municipal staff positions through three independent notices published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga (BOPMA) on November 4, 2026, within section 3 — City Council. The calls for applications correspond to three different profiles —Industrial Technical Engineer, Social Worker, and General Services Guard— and are based on the accumulated public employment offers (OEP) from the 2023 to 2026 fiscal years. The notices are listed as Edict 4227/2026, Edict 4228/2026, and Edict 4229/2026.

Three edicts and thirteen positions

The summary of the provincial gazette from November 4 lists the three notices from the Marbella council consecutively, confirming that they are processed as separate procedures with their own guidelines:

• Edict 4227/2026 — call to fill 3 positions for Industrial Technical Engineer, corresponding to the 2024 and 2025 OEP.
• Edict 4228/2026 — call for 4 positions for Social Worker, corresponding to the 2023 and 2026 OEP.
• Edict 4229/2026 — call to fill 6 positions for General Services Guard, corresponding to the 2023 and 2024 OEP.

The sum of the three calls amounts to 13 positions, the highest volume published by the city council in a single issue of the gazette in recent weeks.

From technical profiles to general services surveillance

The positions span very different scales of the municipal workforce. Two of the calls —those for Industrial Technical Engineer and Social Worker— correspond to technical and social care profiles, while the General Services Guard position is situated within the scope of general services and the surveillance of municipal premises and facilities.

The distribution of fiscal years also reveals a carry-over of pending calls: the social worker position combines a vacancy from the 2023 OEP with another from the 2026 OEP, and the guard position mixes offers from 2023 and 2024. Only the call for industrial technical engineering is limited to the two immediately preceding years.

A steady stream of selection processes

The three calls add to the activity published by Marbella in the BOPMA during recent weeks, depicting a workforce in renewal. In the same period, the city council has published:

• The call to fill 15 positions for General Administration Technician from the 2024, 2025, and 2026 OEP (Edict 4031/2026, October 20).
• The guidelines for the provision of 26 Local Police positions (Edict 3920/2026, October 21).
• The modification of the call to fill 34 positions for General Administration Assistant (Edict 3582/2026, September 21).
• The call for 14 Administrative positions (Edict 3342/2026, August 26).

Added to these are the procedures for processes already underway: final lists of admitted and excluded candidates and the appointment of tribunals for 4 Library Assistant positions, 2 Urban Planning Specialist Jurist positions, 2 Draftsperson positions, 3 Urban Planning Specialist Architect positions, 3 Piano and Solfège Teacher positions, and 1 Industrial Technical Engineer position, in addition to the correction of a material error in the internship appointment for 4 Firefighter Sergeant positions and the merit-based call for the Technical Coordinator position.

How to consult the rules and deadlines

The bulletin summary identifies each process by its edict number and profile, but the full details—rules, requirements, selection system, tribunal composition, and application deadline—appear in the full text of each announcement published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga, to which interested parties should refer before submitting their application. Each call has its own edict, meaning that deadlines and conditions are not necessarily the same across the three processes.

For those preparing for competitive exams in the province, the coincidence of three municipal calls in a single issue reinforces the trend of recent months: the Marbella City Council, one of the most significant in the province, is gradually deploying the positions committed in its public employment offers from 2023 to 2026, which opens opportunities for both technical profiles and those seeking access to municipal service via general services.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga (BOPMA), November 4, 2026, section 3 — City Council (official reference: Edicts 4227/2026, 4228/2026, and 4229/2026).