Tortosa approves the bases for three municipal maintenance job banks

The Local Governing Board of Tortosa approved on November 2, 2026, the bases that shall govern the selection processes to establish and operate three job banks for temporary labor personnel. The objective is to cover the non-permanent personnel needs required to integrate the maintenance and conservation team for municipal buildings, equipment, facilities, and public roads. The call, processed under reference file 2026-RRH-C0503-000009 and signed by Mayor Maria del Mar Lleixà Fortuño, is published in full in the Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona on November 13, 2026 (CVE 2026-10406), with a deadline of 20 business days to submit applications.

The approved text occupies 21 pages of the gazette and includes the regulatory bases, the annexes of specific requirements, the description of functions, and the syllabus. Selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system (concurso-oposición) and the processes are open, guaranteeing free competition and the principles of equality, merit, and capacity. Selected individuals will be hired under a temporary labor regime, full-time or part-time, with schedules that may include afternoons, morning and afternoon shifts, and weekends according to service needs.

Three professional categories and requirements

The job banks correspond to three categories, each with its own classification subgroup:

• 1st Class Official, subgroup C2, with command and coordination functions for the team of 2nd class officials and laborers.
• 2nd Class Official, subgroup C2, with direct execution tasks and support for the 1st class official, without command functions.
• Operator, subgroup AP, with auxiliary tasks of the specialty.

The specific requirements are: a secondary education graduate degree or equivalent for the two official positions, no degree required for the operator, a Catalan language certificate of elementary level B1 for officials and basic A2 for the operator, and a class B driver’s license in all three cases. Applicants may apply for more than one category, but they must formalize a separate application and pay the examination fees for each process.

A 70-point process with an eliminatory practical test

The process totals a maximum of 70 points, divided between the examination phase (50) and the merit phase (20):

• Catalan language test, which is eliminatory and graded as pass or fail, which can be substituted by the corresponding certificate.
• Practical test in maintenance and conservation, lasting 40 minutes and worth 45 points, in which the applicant chooses a trade among construction, locksmithing, painting, or electrician; those who do not reach 22.50 points are eliminated.
• Personal interview, worth 5 points and non-eliminatory.
• Merit points, up to 20 points: experience in the public sector (0.10 points per month) and the private sector (0.05), formal and complementary training, and a Catalan certificate higher than the one required.

In the event of a tie in the total score, preference will be given to the person who obtained the better grade in the competitive examination phase.

Fees, deadlines and operation of the pools

Examination fees are set at 15.75 euros per category. Those who are unemployed without any benefits are exempt, a fact that must be proven with a certificate from the State Public Employment Service and a negative pensioner’s certificate from the National Social Security Institute. Applications may be submitted through the Electronic Office of the Tortosa City Council, in person at the Citizen Service Office (Plaça d’Espanya, 1), or through legally provided channels.

The deadline begins on the next business day following publication in the bulletin and ends after 20 business days. Within a maximum period of one month, the Presidency will issue the resolution with the provisional list of admitted and excluded candidates, which will open a period of 10 business days for corrections; publications on the e-board and the municipal website replace individual notification. The pools will be valid for two years from the first contract, and the call will be made by email and telephone, with 48 hours to accept the offer; rejecting it once results in moving to the last place on the list, and rejecting it twice results in definitive exclusion. The probationary period is two months for subgroups C2 and one month for the AP.

The call opens a path to municipal public employment in one of the largest cities in the province, in a field—the maintenance of buildings, facilities, and public roads—with recurring reinforcement needs. The resulting pools will be the source of temporary contracting for the service over the next two years, such that the score obtained will determine the order of call for the applicants integrated into them.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Tarragona, no. of 13-11-2026, section I, pp. 1-21 (official reference: CVE 2026-10406).