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PESCO Jobs 2026 — 4 Assistant Manager Posts via ETEA (Finance, Transmission & Planning, Demand Forecasting), Apply by 10 November

Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO), Market Implementation & Regulatory Affairs Department, Ministry of Energy (Power Division) — Peshawar (and anywhere under PESCO jurisdiction)

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 15 Oct 2026 Updated: 29 Oct 2026 13 min read

The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) has announced four Assistant Manager posts in its Market Implementation and Regulatory Affairs Department, recruited through the Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) under Project 874. The advertisement appeared in the Daily Express on 15 October 2026, carries the reference DGPR-73/26-27, and closes on 10 November 2026. Two of the posts are Assistant Manager (Finance), one is Assistant Manager (Transmission and Planning), and one is Assistant Manager (Demand Forecasting). All four are open-merit posts on contract, on a lump-sum pay package, and the advertisement states plainly that the service will never be regularised.

The posts sit in the department that is handling PESCO's move toward a competitive electricity market, which is why the mix is half finance and half power-system engineering. Finance applicants need a professional accountancy qualification or a finance master's or honours degree, plus audit and accounts experience with a power-sector year. The two engineering posts need an electrical or electronic engineering degree and three years of experience including a year in transmission planning or demand forecasting respectively. The age limit for all four posts is 21 to 33 years, with the general relaxation already included in that band, plus extra relaxation for scheduled castes and Buddhists and for government servants. Applications go through the ETEA portal, with the test fee paid through OneLink after an E-Sahulat CNIC verification.

About Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO), Market Implementation & Regulatory Affairs Department, Ministry of Energy (Power Division)

The Peshawar Electric Supply Company is the public-sector power distribution company for Peshawar and large parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, working under the Ministry of Energy (Power Division). It takes bulk power into its network and distributes it to domestic, commercial, industrial and agricultural consumers across its licensed territory, running grid stations, feeders, complaint offices and billing operations from its headquarters at WAPDA House on Shami Road in Peshawar. Like the other distribution companies, PESCO operates as a corporate utility rather than a government department, which is why its hiring for specialist roles is done on contract through a testing agency instead of through a public service commission.

The Market Implementation and Regulatory Affairs Department is the part of PESCO that deals with the market side of the business: the regulatory framework, market rules, planning data and the commercial arrangements that a competitive power market requires. That is the context for these four posts. A finance assistant manager in this department works on the audit, accounts and financial-planning material that regulation demands, while the transmission-planning and demand-forecasting posts feed the network studies and load forecasts on which investment and purchasing decisions rest. Applicants should therefore read these as specialist market-function posts, not general administration posts, and the experience conditions in the advertisement reflect that specialisation.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

Four posts are open, in three titles, all in the same department and all on the same terms: contract, lump-sum pay, no regularisation, open merit. The table below gives each title exactly as advertised, with the qualification and experience that decide eligibility for that title.

• Assistant Manager (Finance): Finance and audit work for the market-affairs department. Needs two years of post-qualification audit and accounts experience within three years total, including one year in the power sector, and computer literacy is mandatory.
• Assistant Manager (Transmission & Planning): Transmission system planning work, including planning at the 132-kV level. Needs three years of total experience including one year in transmission planning.
• Assistant Manager (Demand Forecasting): Electricity demand forecasting for planning cycles. Needs three years of total experience including one year in demand forecasting.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Finance: CA (Inter), CMA (Inter) or ACCA membership, or M.Com, MBA (Finance), B.Com (Hons) or BBA Finance (Hons).
• Finance experience: two years of post-qualification experience in audit and accounts, within three years of total experience including one year in the power sector; computer literacy is mandatory.
• Engineering posts: BE or BSc in Electrical or Electronic Engineering from an HEC-recognised university.
• Transmission and Planning experience: three years in total, including one year in transmission planning, including work at the 132-kV level.
• Demand Forecasting experience: three years in total, including one year in demand forecasting.
• Age between 21 and 33 years for all four posts; general age relaxation is already included in that limit.
• Three years of additional upper-age relaxation for scheduled caste and Buddhist candidates.
• Ten years of additional upper-age relaxation for government servants with two years of continuous service.
• All four posts are open merit; posting is in Peshawar and anywhere under PESCO jurisdiction.
• Applicants must accept contract appointment on a lump-sum package: the advertisement states the service will never be regularised.

Eligibility for the PESCO posts is post-specific, and the finance and engineering tracks must not be mixed up. For Assistant Manager (Finance), the advertisement accepts two routes: a professional accountancy qualification at inter or member level (CA Inter, CMA Inter or ACCA member) or a finance degree at master's or honours level (M.Com, MBA Finance, B.Com Honours or BBA Finance Honours). On top of the qualification, the detailed post-wise table requires two years of post-qualification experience in audit and accounts, within three years of total experience that includes one year in the power sector, and computer literacy is mandatory rather than desirable. One general roundup summarises the finance experience loosely as one to three years; this article follows the detailed table, because it is the version that matches the post-wise notices, and applicants should measure themselves against the two-part requirement, not the loose summary.

For the two engineering posts, the degree condition is the same in both cases: a bachelor's degree in electrical or electronic engineering from an HEC-recognised university. What differs is the field year. Transmission and Planning wants three years in total including one year in transmission planning, with work at the 132-kV level named in the detailed table. Demand Forecasting wants three years in total including one year in demand forecasting. The age limit is 21 to 33 years for all four posts, and the advertisement is explicit that the general relaxation is already included in that band, so applicants should not add a further general relaxation on top. The only additional relaxations printed are three years for scheduled caste and Buddhist candidates and ten years for government servants with two years of continuous service. Finally, every applicant should weigh the contract condition before applying: these are lump-sum contract posts and the advertisement warns that the service will never be regularised, so the posts suit specialists who want the market-affairs work itself rather than a path to permanent PESCO service.

Salary & Benefits

The advertisement prints no salary figure for any of the four posts, so this article gives no rupee amount and no estimate. What the advertisement does state is the pay structure: a lump-sum contract package, as opposed to a basic pay scale with allowances. A lump-sum package means the appointee is paid the contracted amount for the post rather than moving through the annual increments of a government pay scale, and the usual incidents of regular government service, including regularisation, do not apply. Applicants comparing these posts with scale posts should therefore compare the total contracted package, once PESCO communicates it to shortlisted candidates, against the security and progression of a scale post, and should treat any rupee figure quoted on social media or secondary pages as unverified unless PESCO itself states it. No test-fee amount is printed either; the fee is described only as the prescribed non-refundable test fee payable through OneLink, and applicants should pay exactly the amount their own deposit slip shows.

Selection Process

Selection runs through ETEA under Project 874. Applicants create a profile on the ETEA portal, verify their CNIC at a NADRA E-Sahulat outlet with the ETEA token, select Project 874 and their post, print the deposit slip and pay the prescribed fee through OneLink. ETEA then issues a roll number slip, and candidates are informed by SMS when it is available to download and print; the test date, time and venue are printed on the roll number slip, and no separate call letter is sent by post. Only candidates who qualify the screening test are asked for copies of their documents for scrutiny by the appointing authority. PESCO's department, not ETEA, makes the final appointment decision from the qualified candidates, and queries about the posts go to the Director General (Human Resources) at PESCO headquarters, WAPDA House, Shami Road, Peshawar.

Documents Required

• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).
• Educational degrees and transcripts for the post applied for (finance degree or engineering degree, as applicable).
• Professional accountancy qualification documents, for Finance applicants (CA Inter / CMA Inter / ACCA membership).
• Experience letters covering the required years, including the field year (power-sector audit and accounts, transmission planning, or demand forecasting).
• ETEA profile printout and the stamped original deposit slip (candidate copy).
• E-Sahulat CNIC verification token record.
• Recent passport-size photographs.
• Domicile certificate, where the portal asks for it.
• No objection certificate from the parent department, for government servants.
• HEC equivalence certificate, for any foreign degree claimed.
• Original documents for verification at the interview or scrutiny stage.
• Any relaxation or category certificate claimed (scheduled caste, Buddhist, or government service).

Terms & Conditions

The advertisement carries the standard conditions of an ETEA-run contract recruitment. Appointment is on contract on a lump-sum package and the service will never be regularised, which applicants accept by applying. The age limit of 21 to 33 years already includes the general relaxation; only the printed additional relaxations (three years for scheduled castes and Buddhists, ten years for government servants with two years of continuous service) apply on top. No TA or DA is admissible for the test or interview unless the appointing authority states otherwise. Documents are collected from candidates who qualify the screening test, and a false document or a mismatch with the CNIC can lead to disqualification at scrutiny. ETEA does not accept late applications, and incomplete applications are not considered.

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