Production Manager (Manufacturing) (ANZSCO 133512)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Production Manager (Manufacturing) on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Production Manager (Manufacturing) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Production Manager (Manufacturing) is a VETASSESS Group B occupation on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visa subclasses. VETASSESS states directly which occupations are not considered under this code: Production Manager (Forestry), Production Manager (Mining) and Manufacturer — treating the three production-management titles as mutually exclusive from each other and from the ownership-flavoured Manufacturer code, despite all four sharing an obvious family resemblance in day-to-day duties.

Where these applications come unstuck

An applicant whose factory runs across multiple product lines that happen to touch forestry or mining inputs needs to nominate on the basis of the specific sector the role manages, not the general skill of production management — VETASSESS's exclusion list makes clear these are treated as separate occupations, and Production Manager (Mining) in particular carries no CSOL at all, so nominating the wrong sector-specific code here does not just risk a mismatch, it can mean losing employer-sponsorship visa reach the correctly nominated code would have kept.

An honest read on this pathway

A genuinely open, well-reaching pathway — six subclasses including employer sponsorship, on par with the Forestry variant and clearly ahead of the Mining one. The sector-specific naming is the only real trap: manufacturing, forestry and mining production management are kept as separate codes even where the underlying managerial skill is the same, and only the manufacturing-sector code and its forestry counterpart carry the CSOL membership that opens direct sponsorship.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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