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Field Technician
Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales · Zacatecas · Closed
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Anyone who meets the education and experience rules for the job and the legal requirements can apply. Mexican citizens with full rights can apply, and so can foreigners whose immigration status allows them to do the job.
Education: Bachelor's degree · Finished or intern (pasante)
Accepted degrees:
- Desarrollo Agropecuario
- Agronomía
- Ecología
- Biología
- Ciencias Forestales
Experience: 1 year of experience
In these areas:
- Soil science (edaphology)
- Agronomy
- Forest science
Legal requirements:
- Be a Mexican citizen with full civil rights, or a foreigner whose immigration status allows the job
- Not have been sentenced to prison for an intentional crime
- Be fit to perform duties in public service
- Not belong to the clergy or be a minister of any religion
- Not be barred from public service or have another legal or administrative impediment
- Not fall under the cases in Article 38, section VII of the Constitution
2 Register on TrabajaEn
Registration: October 14 to October 27.
Register for free on the Trabajaen portal (www.trabajaen.gob.mx) from October 14 to 27, 2026 to get your participation folio. Then send the documents when the Trabajaen Message Center asks for them.
To register you need your CURP and RFC, a TrabajaEn account and an up-to-date TrabajaEn CV. When you register for this job you get a folio number: keep it, you need it at every stage.
3 Exams and documents
The stages of the contest:
- I. Résumé review (registration on Trabajaen from October 14 to 27, 2026)
- II. Knowledge exams and skills assessments (from November 3, 2026)
- III. Experience evaluation and merit assessment (from November 3, 2026)
- IV. Interview with the Selection Committee (from November 3, 2026)
- V. Final decision on the winner (from November 3, 2026)
Minimum score: El examen de conocimientos técnicos requiere una calificación mínima de 80 (escala de 0 a 100). Para ser finalista se necesita un mínimo de 70 puntos en el Sistema de Puntuación General.
Look on TrabajaEn for the topics of the knowledge exam of your job, and check your messages often: that is where your exam and document-check appointments arrive.
Keep in mind:
- The Trabajaen Message Center is the official communication channel; check it often.
- Original documents must be shown for checking. Photocopies are not accepted in their place.
- The Committee did not authorize reactivating folios for reasons caused by applicants.
- Passing results on the technical exam are valid for one year, as long as the syllabus does not change.
Documents for the document check (tick them when you have them):
4 Interview and result
The interview is with the Selection Technical Committee: prepare examples of your experience in the duties of the job. Then the committee chooses the winner. If you are a finalist and do not win, you join the candidate reserve for the job for one year.
The duties of the job:
- Receive and register forest management programs
- Technically review forest management programs
- Send the programs to the Legal Unit for legal review
- Promote forest culture and citizen participation
- Agree on work with institutions and organizations to conserve natural resources
- Review and register programs in the National Forest Registry
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