Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission PAEC Jobs 2026 Peshawar — Public Notice S-14/2026

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) — Peshawar (initial posting; selected candidates may be posted anywhere in Pakistan)

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 18 Oct 2026 Updated: 31 Oct 2026 17 min read

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has invited online applications from Pakistani nationals for three posts under Public Notice S-14/2026, with initial posting at Peshawar and the possibility of posting anywhere in Pakistan. The three posts are Scientific Assistant-II, Technician-II (Medical) and Junior Assistant-II (Admin), all in SPS-3, and online applications close on 1 November 2026. The posts are purely temporary but likely to continue for an indefinite period, and employment is under the Contributory Pension Fund or Provident Fund scheme as per the rules. The upper age limit is 35 years on the closing date, with relaxation as per the rules, and all required qualifications and experience must be completed by the closing date. Applications are accepted online only, through the official recruitment portal at hrd1902.com.pk, and applications submitted in any other way will be rejected. This article covers Public Notice S-14/2026 only: the commission's separate notices for other stations, including S-15/2026 for Tandojam in Sindh closing 15 November 2026 and S-11/2026 for Dera Ghazi Khan closing 6 November 2026, are different advertisements with different posts and deadlines, and applicants must not mix their dates with this notice's 1 November 2026 closing date. The advertisement prints no seat count per post, and this article therefore states three open posts and no headcount.

About Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission is the country's federal scientific organisation for nuclear and atomic energy work, and its establishments, laboratories and medical and technical facilities employ the scientific assistants, technicians and administrative staff who keep that work running. Because the commission's work is scientific and technical, its recruitment notices read differently from a general government department's: posts are advertised by public notice number, grades are given on the commission's own Special Pay Scales rather than the basic pay scale, and the eligibility lines are built around divisions, recognised courses and post-qualification experience rather than a single degree. Public Notice S-14/2026 is the Peshawar notice of the current round, and its initial place of posting is Peshawar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with the standard commission condition that a selected candidate may be posted anywhere in Pakistan. That mobility condition is not a footnote: a candidate who applies for a Peshawar posting must accept that the appointment itself is transferable, and the advertisement states it plainly. The commission's recruitment portal, hrd1902.com.pk, is the single application route for these notices, and it also serves the commission's test and interview call letters, which eligible candidates are informed about by SMS, email and post. For a science or medical-technology candidate, a PAEC notice is one of the few federal openings where a first-division intermediate qualification, rather than a university degree, is the entry ticket, and that is exactly what S-14/2026 offers in all three of its posts.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

The notice carries three posts, all in SPS-3, and the advertisement prints no seat count for any of them, so the honest statement is three open posts rather than a total headcount. Each post has its own qualification route, and the Technician-II (Medical) post has three alternative routes of its own. The table below gives every route exactly as the notice states it.

• Scientific Assistant-II: The scientific post of the notice, for a first-division pre-medical intermediate holder; the division requirement is strict, subject only to the notice's one-second-division rule explained in the eligibility section.
• Technician-II (Medical): The medical-technology post, with three alternative routes that trade course length against experience years; a candidate qualifies on any one complete route, and experience counts only after the minimum prescribed qualification.
• Junior Assistant-II (Admin): The administrative post of the notice; the six-month Office Automation Course is part of the printed requirement, not an optional extra, so an intermediate certificate alone does not complete this route.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Only Pakistani nationals are eligible for Public Notice S-14/2026.
• Scientific Assistant-II (SPS-3): F.Sc (Pre-Medical) in 1st Division.
• Technician-II (Medical) (SPS-3): one of three routes — Matric with Science in 1st Division plus a 1-year course in the relevant field from a government-recognised institute plus 3 years of relevant experience; or Matric with Science in 1st Division plus a 2-year course in the relevant field plus 2 years of relevant experience; or F.Sc (Pre-Medical), preferably in 1st Division, plus a 1-year diploma in the relevant field from a government-recognised institute.
• Junior Assistant-II (Admin) (SPS-3): F.A or F.Sc in 1st Division with a 6-month Office Automation Course, or an equivalent admin-related qualification.
• Where 1st Division is required in the final qualification, only one 2nd Division in the entire academic career, from Matric onwards, is acceptable.
• Upper age limit is 35 years on the closing date of the advertisement, with relaxation as per the rules.
• All required qualifications and experience must be completed by the closing date, and experience counts only if acquired after the minimum prescribed qualification.
• Educational certificates, diplomas and degrees must be from government-recognised institutes.
• Government and semi-government employees must provide a no-objection certificate at the time of test or interview.
• Applications are accepted online only through hrd1902.com.pk; applications submitted in any other way will be rejected.

Eligibility for Public Notice S-14/2026 turns on divisions, recognised courses and the timing of experience, and each of those three tests has a trap that applicants should check before submitting. The division test is the first: the Scientific Assistant-II post requires F.Sc (Pre-Medical) in first division, the Junior Assistant-II post requires F.A or F.Sc in first division, and the Technician-II (Medical) post requires Matric with Science in first division on its two Matric routes. The notice softens that test by exactly one step and no more: where first division is required in the final qualification, only one second division in the entire academic career, from Matric onwards, is acceptable, so a candidate with two second divisions anywhere in the record does not meet the test even if the final qualification itself is first division. The course test is the second: the Technician-II routes require a one-year or two-year course, or a one-year diploma, in the relevant field from a government-recognised institute, and the Junior Assistant-II route requires a six-month Office Automation Course or an equivalent admin-related qualification, so a certificate from an unrecognised institute, or a general computer course that is not the office-automation course the notice names, does not complete the route. The timing test is the third, and it is the one that most often surprises applicants: all qualifications and experience must be completed by the closing date of 1 November 2026, and experience counts only if acquired after the minimum prescribed qualification, so experience gained before completing the Matric or F.Sc qualification does not count, and a result awaited at the closing date does not complete the qualification. Age is simpler but still strict: the upper limit is thirty-five years on the closing date, with relaxation as per the rules, and the closing date is the measuring date, not the date of any later test or interview. Nationality is a hard gate: only Pakistani nationals are eligible. Government and semi-government employees must produce a no-objection certificate at the time of test or interview, and meeting the eligibility lines does not guarantee shortlisting: the notice states that preference will be given to candidates with higher marks, division, CGPA or percentage and more experience if applications are high in number, so a candidate who only just meets the bar should expect competition from candidates who exceed it.

Salary & Benefits

The advertisement prints no monthly salary figure for any of the three posts, and this article therefore states none. What the notice does print is the grade and the fund: all three posts are in SPS-3, the commission's Special Pay Scale 3, and employment is under the Contributory Pension Fund or Provident Fund scheme as per the rules. Because the posts are on a special pay scale rather than the basic pay scale, a BPS salary table cannot be used to read them, and no rupee figure from a BPS post should be carried across to this notice. The posts are purely temporary but likely to continue for an indefinite period, which is the commission's standard wording for this class of appointment: the engagement is not a permanent appointment at the outset, but it is also not a fixed short-term engagement with a printed end date, and its continuation follows the commission's rules and the Contributory Pension Fund or Provident Fund terms that apply to it. Any monthly salary number circulating for this notice on a job board is an estimate carried over from another commission round or another organisation, not a fact from Public Notice S-14/2026, and applicants should not plan around it. The notice prints no application fee, and this article states none: the application method is online submission through the official portal, with no fee mentioned in the notice or in the detailed secondary reports. No travel or daily allowance is paid for the test or interview, so candidates travel to the test or interview at their own expense. Candidates who need a pay figure before deciding should check the commission's portal or the notice itself for the current SPS-3 position rather than relying on a number invented by a secondary site.

Selection Process

The notice prints no test date, test syllabus or interview schedule, and this article invents none. What it does state is the application gate and the shortlisting rule, and those two items define the process. Applications are accepted online only, through the official recruitment portal at hrd1902.com.pk, and applications submitted in any other way will be rejected outright, so a postal application, however complete, is not an application for this notice. After submission, the commission screens applications against the printed routes, and the notice is explicit that meeting eligibility does not guarantee shortlisting: where applications are high in number, preference goes to candidates with higher marks, division, CGPA or percentage and more experience, which means the contest is on the academic record and the post-qualification experience record, not on a first-come basis. Eligible candidates are informed about their test or interview call letters through the portal, and the portal's own guidance adds that eligible candidates are informed by SMS, email and postal service, with call letters printable from the portal. Government and semi-government employees must produce their no-objection certificate at the time of test or interview, and all candidates should keep their original documents ready for verification at that stage. No travel or daily allowance is paid for the test or interview. The commission also reserves the right to withdraw or cancel posts or to reject any application without assigning a reason, so no applicant should treat a submitted application as a guarantee of a test call. Because the closing date is 1 November 2026, only two days after this article's publication, applicants should submit immediately rather than waiting for the last hours, when portal load and any document problem can cost the whole application.

Documents Required

• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) copy, as proof of Pakistani nationality and identity.
• Matriculation certificate with Science, in 1st Division where the route requires it, from a recognised Board.
• F.Sc (Pre-Medical) certificate in 1st Division, for the Scientific Assistant-II post and for the Technician-II route that requires it.
• F.A or F.Sc certificate in 1st Division, for the Junior Assistant-II (Admin) post.
• One-year or two-year course certificate in the relevant field from a government-recognised institute, for the Technician-II (Medical) routes that require it.
• One-year diploma certificate in the relevant field from a government-recognised institute, for the Technician-II route that requires it.
• Six-month Office Automation Course certificate, or equivalent admin-related qualification evidence, for the Junior Assistant-II (Admin) post.
• Experience certificates covering the post-qualification experience claimed, with dates showing the experience was acquired after the minimum prescribed qualification.
• Two recent passport-size photographs.
• No-objection certificate, for government and semi-government employees, to be produced at the time of test or interview.
• Original documents for verification at the test or interview stage, as the commission requires originals there.
• The completed online application submitted through hrd1902.com.pk before 1 November 2026, with a copy or acknowledgement of the submission retained.

Terms & Conditions

The notice's terms are the standard commission terms, and four of them decide candidacies. First, only Pakistani nationals are eligible, and all qualifications and experience must be completed by the closing date, with experience counting only after the minimum prescribed qualification. Second, the division rule is strict: where first division is required in the final qualification, only one second division in the entire academic career from Matric onwards is acceptable. Third, applications are online only through hrd1902.com.pk, applications in any other way are rejected, and meeting eligibility does not guarantee shortlisting, since preference goes to higher marks, division, CGPA or percentage and more experience when applications are high. Fourth, the commission reserves the right to withdraw or cancel posts or to reject any application without assigning a reason, and no travel or daily allowance is paid for the test or interview. The posts are purely temporary but likely to continue for an indefinite period, under the Contributory Pension Fund or Provident Fund scheme as per the rules, and the initial posting is Peshawar with possible posting anywhere in Pakistan. Two honesty notes belong here. The advertisement prints no seat count per post, so this article states three open posts and no headcount. The notice also prints no application fee and no monthly salary figure, so this article states neither; the grade is SPS-3 for all three posts, and any rupee figure quoted elsewhere for this notice is not a notice fact.

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