UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026: Apply Online for 1,156 Posts, Check Vacancy, Eligibility and Exam Pattern

The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) has released Advertisement No. 24-Exam/2026 for the UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026. Through this recruitment, 1,156 Junior Engineer (Mechanical), Technical Assistant, Instructor Machine, Assistant Storekeeper, Mechanic and Assistant District Panchayat Raj Officer (Technical) posts will be filled in the Irrigation Department, PWD, UPSRTC, the Ground Water Department, the Prison Department and the Panchayati Raj Department. Applications started on 3 November 2026, the last date to apply is 25 November 2026, corrections can be made till 2 December 2026, and the exam date will be announced later. Only candidates who appeared in PET-2025 and hold a PET-2025 scorecard can apply. Selection is through a written examination only – there is no interview. This guide covers the UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 apply online process step by step, with the vacancy table, eligibility, fee, exam pattern and salary from the official advertisement. This is the companion recruitment to our UPSSSC JE Electrical Recruitment 2026 guide for 380 posts.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 – Overview

The one-line answer most candidates need. If you appeared in PET-2025, hold its scorecard with a positive normalised score, and hold a 3-year Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, you can apply online between 3 and 25 November 2026 for Rs 25. Read the post-wise rules below before you apply, because the age limit, the qualification and even the pay level change from one department to another.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Vacancy 2026 – Post-Wise and Category-Wise Details

The biggest block sits in the Irrigation and Water Resources Directorate: 304 Junior Engineer (Mechanical) posts, plus 154 more under Special Selection. UPSRTC Mechanic follows with 270 posts, PWD Junior Engineer with 264, and UPSRTC Assistant Storekeeper with 128. The full break-up from Table-1 of the official advertisement is below; the Commission states that these vacancy numbers may increase or decrease.

Category-wise total posts. Across all 8 rows the advertisement totals UR 439, SC 319, ST 15, OBC 285 and EWS 98, adding up to 1,156. Two details are easy to miss. First, the Irrigation Junior Engineer (Mechanical) Special Selection row has 154 posts and not a single Unreserved or EWS seat – all 154 seats are SC (113) and OBC (41). Second, the Ground Water Technical Assistant (Special Selection) row has only 3 posts – SC 2 and OBC 1 – and again no Unreserved or EWS seat.

Horizontal reservation (inside the totals above, not extra seats). In the Irrigation Junior Engineer (Mechanical) row: Women 60, Ex-Servicemen 15, Dependents of Freedom Fighters (DFF) 6, Sportspersons 6, Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) 12 (Low Vision 4, Hard of Hearing 4, One Arm or One Leg Affected 4). In the Irrigation Special Selection row: Women 30, Ex-Servicemen 7, DFF 3, Sportspersons 3, PwBD 8. In PWD: Women 52, Ex-Servicemen 13, DFF 5, Sportspersons 5, PwBD 10 (Acid Attack Victims). In UPSRTC Mechanic: Women 54, Ex-Servicemen 13, DFF 5, Sportspersons 5, PwBD 10 (Dwarfism, Acid Attack Victims). In UPSRTC Assistant Storekeeper: Women 25, Ex-Servicemen 6, DFF 2, Sportspersons 2, PwBD 5. In the ADPRO (Technical) row: Women 6, Ex-Servicemen 1, PwBD 1 (Low Vision). The Ground Water Technical Assistant and Instructor Machine rows carry no horizontal-reservation seats.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Eligibility Criteria 2026

Age limit. The age limit is 18 to 40 years for most posts, and 21 to 40 years for two posts: Technical Assistant (Mechanical), Special Selection (Ground Water Department) and Assistant District Panchayat Raj Officer (Technical). The age is counted as on 1 July 2026 – the first July of the calendar year in which the vacancies were advertised. For the two UPSRTC posts the rule is 1 January if the advertisement is issued between January and June, and 1 July if it is issued between July and December; this advertisement was published on 12 October 2026, so 1 July 2026 applies there too. Age relaxation is 5 years on the maximum age for SC and ST candidates and for other notified categories, and candidates already working in UPSRTC get 5 extra years on the upper age limit for the two UPSRTC posts. If a candidate claims more than one relaxation, only one is allowed. The date of birth is taken only from the High School certificate.

Common conditions. (1) The candidate must have appeared in UPSSSC PET-2025 and must hold an issued PET-2025 scorecard. (2) The essential qualification and its certificate must be held by 25 November 2026. (3) Candidates who are not domiciled in Uttar Pradesh are treated as Unreserved and get no reservation benefit. (4) A preferential qualification applies to most posts: 2 years of service in the Territorial Army, or an NCC ‘B’ certificate. (5) Candidates whose PET-2025 result is marked Provisional or Under Investigation may apply provisionally, subject to the Commission’s final decision.

Post-wise qualification. The qualification rule is not the same for every post, and the exceptions are the traps that cause rejections:

Who can apply. Any Indian citizen who appeared in PET-2025, holds the PET-2025 scorecard with a positive normalised score, and meets the age and qualification rules of the post can apply. Candidates from outside Uttar Pradesh can apply, but they are treated as Unreserved candidates and receive no reservation benefit. Candidates with a zero or negative PET score – absolute or normalised – will not be shortlisted for the main examination.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 – Important Dates

The closing date does double duty in this recruitment. The link closes on 25 November 2026, and the same date is the cut-off on which your qualification and certificates are counted. A diploma completed after 25 November 2026 does not make you eligible. The correction facility stays open for 7 more days, till 2 December 2026, but only for the four fields listed in the Correction Window section below. The EWS certificate must also fall in the window from 1 April 2026 to 25 November 2026, based on the family’s FY 2025-26 income and valid for FY 2026-27.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Application Fee 2026

The fee at the application stage is the same Rs 25 for every category: the application fee itself is Rs 0 and only the online processing fee of Rs 25 is charged. The fee can be paid by credit card, debit card, internet banking or UPI, or through an SBI e-challan at any SBI branch. One point candidates miss: a separate main examination fee will be charged later, and only from candidates shortlisted for the main examination, before they download the admit card. The advertisement does not state that fee’s amount, so do not trust any website that prints one. Candidates in the DFF, Ex-Servicemen, Women, PwBD and Outstanding Sportsperson categories pay the fee of their main category. The form is auto-submitted only after the fee is successfully paid and reconciled by the bank – download and print it after that, because the printout cannot be taken until reconciliation is complete.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 Apply Online Process

Applications are accepted online only, through the Commission’s website upsssc.gov.in, under the Live Advertisement segment. No application sent by any other medium is accepted. Follow these steps:

1. Open upsssc.gov.in, go to the Live Advertisement segment and open Advertisement No. 24-Exam/2026.
2. Log in with your PET-2025 Registration Number. An OTP will be sent to your registered mobile number and email – enter it to log in.
3. Your personal details from PET-2025 – name, parents’ names, UP domicile status, category, EWS, horizontal reservation, date of birth, gender, marital status, mobile number and email – will be displayed automatically. Select the post or posts you want to apply for; a post you do not select will not be counted as applied for.
4. Confirm whether you hold the essential qualification for the selected post, and enter the board, institution or university name, passing year, certificate or roll number and certificate issue date.
5. Your photo and signature uploaded in PET-2025 will be displayed automatically – they cannot be changed or corrected in this form.
6. Read the declaration carefully, tick all its points, enter the verification code and click Save and Submit. Then pay the Rs 25 fee by card, internet banking, UPI or SBI e-challan.
7. Once the fee is paid and reconciled, the application form is auto-submitted and displayed on screen with an 11-digit registration number. Download and print it, and keep it safe for document verification.

If the fee is paid but the form does not appear. That means the fee could not be reconciled. Go to the Applicant Segment on the UPSSSC homepage, use “Update Your Transaction ID by Double Verification” with your registration number, log in and click Verify Transaction ID – the fee will be reconciled and the form will appear for download and printing. The same option is available from the Applicant’s Dashboard. Do not submit more than one application for these posts.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Correction Window 2026

After the application is finally submitted, corrections can be made only till 2 December 2026, and only in four fields: (a) correspondence address; (b) other personal details such as EWS and the horizontal reservation category (DFF, Divyang or PH, Ex-Servicemen, Gender, Outstanding Sportsperson); (c) essential and preferential qualification details; and (d) marital status. No other detail can be corrected, and the Commission accepts no separate representation for correction after this date. To correct, log in to the Applicant’s Dashboard with your PET-2025 Registration Number, click Modify Application against this advertisement, enter the verification code and submit the OTP sent to your registered mobile number or email. Check every entry carefully before submitting the corrected form, and take a fresh printout.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Selection Process 2026

Selection has two stages, and there is no interview at any stage – interviews for these subordinate posts were discontinued under the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Posts Direct Recruitment (Discontinuation of Interview) Rules, 2017.

1. PET-2025 shortlisting. Only candidates who appeared in PET-2025 and hold an issued scorecard are considered. Shortlisting for the main examination is done category-wise, on merit, on the basis of the normalised PET-2025 score. Candidates with a zero or negative score – absolute or normalised – are not shortlisted. The advertisement does not state a shortlisting multiplier, so no figure such as “15 times the posts” is claimed here.
2. Main Written Examination. One objective paper of 100 questions for 100 marks in 120 minutes (see the Exam Pattern section below). The exam scheme and syllabus were approved by the government letter No. 481/47-ka-3-2026 dated 30 June 2026.
3. Document scrutiny. Candidates who qualify in the main examination are called for document verification, where they also give their preference of posts. The Commission allots posts on the basis of the preference given, availability, merit, the educational qualification and the age limit of each post, and its decision is final.

Candidates tracking other UPSSSC main examinations can also read our RRC NR Apprentice Recruitment 2026 guide for railway apprentice posts, and the DSSSB MTS and JE Recruitment 2026 guide for Junior Engineer posts in Delhi.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Exam Pattern and Syllabus 2026

The main written examination is a single objective, multiple-choice paper: 100 questions, 100 marks, 2 hours (120 minutes). Each question carries 1 mark, and there is negative marking of 0.25 mark – 25 percent of the question’s mark – for every wrong answer. The exam date has not been announced yet.

What to study. Part 1 (65 marks) is the deciding section: Theory of Machines and Machine Design alone carries 15 marks, covering simple machines, four-bar linkage and link motion, flywheel and energy fluctuation, belt power transmission (V-belt and flat belt), clutches, gears and gear ratio, governors, cams and bearings; Engineering Mechanics covers equilibrium of forces, laws of motion and friction; Strength of Materials covers stress and strain, elastic limit and elastic constants, riveted joints, bending moment and shear force diagrams, torsion of circular shafts and thin-walled pressure vessels; Thermodynamics covers properties of pure substances, steam tables, steam formation, dryness fraction, the first and second laws, steady flow processes and heat engines, heat pumps and refrigerators; I.C. Engine covers air standard cycles, the diesel cycle and engine performance; Steam Engineering covers the Rankine cycle, boilers, mountings, accessories, nozzles and steam turbines; Refrigeration covers air compressors and their cycles and the principles of refrigeration plants; Fluid Mechanics covers fluid statics, fluid pressure measurement, hydraulic turbines and centrifugal pumps. Part 2 (15 marks) covers computer and information technology – history, introduction and applications of computers, IT, the internet and the World Wide Web, hardware and software, input and output, internet protocols and IP addresses, IoT gadgets, email, printers, tablets and mobiles, MS Word and MS Excel, operating systems, social networking and e-governance, digital financial tools, future skills and cyber security, and current developments such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data processing, Deep Learning, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things, with India’s achievements in the field. Part 3 (20 marks) asks about Uttar Pradesh – its history, culture, art, architecture, festivals, folk dance, literature, regional languages, heritage, social customs and tourism, geography and environment, natural resources, climate, soil, forests and wildlife, mines and minerals, economy, agriculture, industry, business and employment, polity and administration, current events and the state’s achievements in different fields.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Salary 2026

Most posts in this recruitment are in Pay Level 6, Rs 35,400 to Rs 1,12,400 per month. The two UPSRTC posts are on the older pay band of Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200 – Level 5 for Mechanic and Level 4 for Assistant Storekeeper. The PWD Junior Engineer row prints the older pay band of Rs 9,300 to Rs 34,800 with Grade Pay Rs 4,200. The advertisement gives no in-hand salary figure, and the actual in-hand pay depends on allowances and deductions, so no in-hand number is claimed here.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 – Important Links

Before applying, read the official advertisement once in full – especially Table-1 for your post’s vacancy and pay level, and Section 6 for its exact qualification. The vacancy numbers can increase or decrease, and the main examination date will be notified separately by the Commission.

UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 – FAQs

What is the last date to apply for UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

The UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 apply online window closes on 25 November 2026. Registration, fee payment and form submission all close on the same day. Fee adjustment and application correction can be done till 2 December 2026.

How many posts are there in UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

There are 1,156 posts in total: Irrigation Junior Engineer (Mechanical) 304, Irrigation Junior Engineer (Mechanical) Special Selection 154, UPSRTC Mechanic 270, PWD Junior Engineer (Mechanical) 264, UPSRTC Assistant Storekeeper 128, Assistant District Panchayat Raj Officer (Technical) 32, Ground Water Technical Assistant (Mechanical) Special Selection 3, and Instructor Machine 1. The category break-up is UR 439, SC 319, ST 15, OBC 285 and EWS 98.

Who can apply for UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

Only candidates who appeared in UPSSSC PET-2025 and hold an issued PET-2025 scorecard can apply. The candidate must also hold the essential qualification for the post by 25 November 2026 and meet the post’s age limit. Candidates with a zero or negative PET score will not be shortlisted. Candidates from outside Uttar Pradesh can apply but are treated as Unreserved.

What is the application fee for UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

The UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026 apply online fee is Rs 25 for every category: the application fee is Rs 0 and the online processing fee is Rs 25. A separate main examination fee will be charged later, only from candidates shortlisted for the main examination, before they download the admit card. The advertisement does not state that fee’s amount.

What is the age limit for UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

The age limit is 18 to 40 years for most posts and 21 to 40 years for the Ground Water Technical Assistant (Mechanical) Special Selection and the Assistant District Panchayat Raj Officer (Technical) posts. Age is counted as on 1 July 2026. SC and ST candidates get 5 years of relaxation on the maximum age, and candidates already working in UPSRTC get 5 extra years for the two UPSRTC posts.

What is the qualification for UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

The main qualification is a 3-year Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, with post-wise variations: the UPSRTC Mechanic needs a diploma in Automobile or Mechanical Engineering, the Instructor Machine post needs Intermediate plus a diploma in Mechanical Maintenance, and the PWD Junior Engineer needs High School plus a diploma in Mechanical Engineering. A preferential qualification of 2 years in the Territorial Army or an NCC ‘B’ certificate applies to most posts.

What is the exam pattern of UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

The main written examination is one objective multiple-choice paper of 100 questions for 100 marks in 120 minutes, with negative marking of 0.25 mark per wrong answer. Part 1 covers Mechanical Engineering for 65 marks, Part 2 covers Computer and Information Technology for 15 marks, and Part 3 covers general knowledge of Uttar Pradesh for 20 marks.

Is there an interview in UPSSSC JE Mechanical Recruitment 2026?

No. Selection is through PET-2025 shortlisting followed by the Main Written Examination and document scrutiny only. Interviews for these subordinate posts were discontinued under the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Posts Direct Recruitment (Discontinuation of Interview) Rules, 2017.

How is shortlisting done for the UPSSSC JE Mechanical main exam?

Shortlisting for the main examination is done category-wise, on merit, on the basis of the normalised PET-2025 score. Candidates with a zero or negative score, absolute or normalised, are not shortlisted. Candidates whose PET-2025 result is marked Provisional or Under Investigation may apply provisionally, subject to the Commission’s final decision.

What is the salary for UPSSSC JE Mechanical posts?

Most posts are in Pay Level 6, Rs 35,400 to Rs 1,12,400 per month. The UPSRTC Mechanic is in Pay Level 5 and the Assistant Storekeeper in Pay Level 4, both on Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200. The PWD Junior Engineer row prints Rs 9,300 to Rs 34,800 with Grade Pay Rs 4,200. No in-hand salary figure is given in the advertisement.

Written by Ravi Singh

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