SSC JE Post List 2026: Complete Organization-Wise List of Posts & Departments

SSC JE isn’t recruitment for a single organization — it’s a shared exam that fills Junior Engineer vacancies across more than a dozen central government departments at once, each with its own posting environment, work culture, and in some cases its own eligibility nuances. The SSC JE 2026 notification (released 2 September 2026) also brought the widest post list this exam has seen in years, adding Junior Engineer (Telecom) and Scientific Assistant (IMD) as entirely new categories alongside the traditional Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical streams.

This guide lists every organization recruiting through SSC JE 2026, the posts each one offers, and what’s genuinely new this cycle — so you can make an informed post-preference choice rather than guessing based on outdated lists from previous years.

SSC JE 2026 — Organization-Wise Post List

Post-wise and category-wise vacancy numbers within this list are released separately by SSC — the table above reflects which organizations and post types are open, not the exact seat count for each.

What’s New in the SSC JE 2026 Post List

This cycle brings the widest expansion of SSC JE’s post list in recent years:

• Junior Engineer (Telecom) — a brand-new discipline under the Department of Telecommunications, opening the exam to telecom-focused engineering graduates and diploma holders for the first time
• Scientific Assistant (IMD) — a new post under the India Meteorological Department, with its own separate exam pattern and eligibility (open to Science graduates with Physics, or Computer Science/IT/Electronics degree-diploma holders)
• Directorate General of Lighthouses & Lightships (DGLL) — newly onboarded, recruiting JE (Civil) and JE (Electrical)
• Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying — newly onboarded, recruiting JE (Civil)

If you’ve referenced an older SSC JE post list from 2023 or 2024, note that these four additions did not exist in those cycles — double-check post preferences against the current 2026 notification rather than a previous year’s list.

SSC JE 2026 — Post-Wise Educational Qualification by Organization

Degree holders (B.E./B.Tech) generally don’t need prior work experience for any organization. Diploma holders applying to experience-linked departments like BRO, MES, and DGQA-Naval typically need a 3-year diploma plus 2 years of relevant field experience — check the exact clause for your target department in the official notification before applying, since this varies by organization.

A Quick Look at What Each Major Organization Does – SSC JE 2026

• BRO (Border Roads Organisation): Builds and maintains roads and infrastructure in border and strategic areas — often more field-intensive postings
• CPWD (Central Public Works Department): Government buildings and urban infrastructure — traditionally the most preferred posting among SSC JE aspirants
• MES (Military Engineer Services): Construction, maintenance, and repair of defence establishment infrastructure
• Central Water Commission: Water resource management, irrigation, and hydrology-linked infrastructure projects
• Farakka Barrage Project: Operation and maintenance of the Farakka Barrage and its associated civil/electrical/mechanical systems
• NTRO: Technical infrastructure support for national technical research functions
• DGLL: Maintenance and development of lighthouse and lightship infrastructure along the coastline
• Department of Telecommunications: Telecom network infrastructure and technical operations (new stream)
• IMD: Meteorological data collection, instrumentation, and forecasting support (Scientific Assistant post)

Which Post Should You Prefer?

• If you want the broadest exposure to civil infrastructure work in urban settings, CPWD remains the most commonly preferred choice among Civil candidates
• If you’re comfortable with field-heavy, sometimes remote postings, BRO and MES offer strong long-term technical exposure, particularly in strategic/defence infrastructure
• If your background is in Electronics/Telecommunication or Computer Science, the new JE (Telecom) and Scientific Assistant (IMD) posts open doors that simply didn’t exist in SSC JE before 2026
• Since post-preference order affects where you’re eventually posted (subject to rank and vacancy), rank your genuine department interest rather than defaulting to the most popular option — a strong preference order matters more than following what’s “traditionally” preferred

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