Salou announces a call for an A2 technician position with six additional vacancies planned

The Salou City Council has announced a selection process to fill one position for a medium-level general administration technician, group A, subgroup A2, as a career civil servant, with a provision for six additional positions to cover future vacancies. The call and the specific rules are published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona (BOPT) on October 16, 2026, under reference CVE 2026-09375, and were approved by the Local Governing Board in an ordinary session on September 24, 2026.

The process is convened by decree of the delegated councillor for General Services number 4744/2026, dated September 28, 2026, and the announcement is signed by the mayor Pere Granados Carrillo. The position is included in the 2025 Public Employment Offer (OPO) under code 238, and the six additional positions, with the same designation and classification group, must be incorporated into the public employment offers of the following two fiscal years, corresponding to 2027 and 2028, in accordance with the thirtieth additional provision of Legislative Decree 1/1997, of October 31. The file number is 13968/2026.

The characteristics of the convened position are as follows:

• Classification group: A2
• Destination level: 20
• Specific supplement: 1,558.2 euros (14 payments)
• Selection system: open competitive examination (concurs-oposició)
• Positions: one from the 2025 OPO (code 238) and a provision for six additional ones

Deadline, applications and fee

Applications must be submitted within a period of 20 business days starting from the day after the publication of the announcement in the BOPT and its summary in the DOGC. Processing is electronic, via the procedure available at the Electronic Office of the Salou City Council (www.salou.cat), with identification by IDCAT certificate or another means of electronic certification.

The examination fee is 42 euros and can be paid through four channels:

• Automatic payment on the platform upon completing the electronic procedure
• City Council cash desk, on the ground floor
• Postal order at any post office
• Bank transfer to account ES31 0081 1587 52 0001012911

Persons with a disability equal to or greater than 33% and job seekers who meet the income requirements established in the rules are exempt from payment.

Requirements and qualifying tribunal

Applicants must meet the following requirements before the end of the submission period:

• Spanish nationality or nationality of another Member State of the European Union
• Must be at least 16 years old and not exceed the maximum compulsory retirement age
• Diploma, university degree or equivalent
• C1 level of Catalan and superior level of Spanish

The qualifying tribunal will be composed of an odd number of career civil servants or permanent labor staff, with the following proportion:

• One third proposed by the Public Administration School of Catalonia
• One third composed of members or officials of the same corporation, one of whom will serve as president
• One third composed of technical staff, from the same entity or another

Process phases and job bank

The selection process consists of two phases. The competitive examination phase is worth 90 points and includes five mandatory and eliminatory exercises:

• First: multiple-choice exam, 25 points
• Second: written practical test, 40 points
• Third: proposal or report, 25 points
• Fourth: Catalan language test, pass or fail
• Fifth: Spanish language test, pass or fail

The merit phase is worth up to 10 points, distributed among professional training (maximum 3 points), professional experience (maximum 4 points), qualifications other than the required one (maximum 2 points), and ACTIC level (maximum 1 point).

Those who pass the process must complete a six-month selective internship period. Successful candidates without a position will be integrated, in order of final score, into a preferential list for the allocation of the six additional positions and, subsequently, into a job bank with a validity of two years, automatically extendable for one-year periods.

The call opens a stable access route to the local public service for university graduates and, at the same time, organizes the future filling of up to seven general administration technician positions in Salou, a forecast of interest to both candidates and municipal staff aspiring to secure a permanent position.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona, no. 16-10-2026, section I, pp. 1-34 (official reference: CVE 2026-09375).