Environmental Manager (ANZSCO 139912)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Environmental Manager on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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 Environmental Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Environmental Manager is a VETASSESS Group B occupation reaching the full eight-visa house on MLTSSL and CSOL. VETASSESS states the distinguishing principle directly, not just by exclusion: this occupation should not be confused with Environmental Consultant, which focuses on conducting analysis and providing advice on policies — manager runs the environmental function, consultant advises on it. The exclusion list also names two other codes from inside this same family, Laboratory Manager and Quality Assurance Manager, showing the boundary problem is not only with outside occupations.

Where these applications come unstuck

An environmental consultant or scientist whose seniority has grown into policy influence, without genuine operational authority over an environmental function, is the applicant most likely to nominate this code wrongly — VETASSESS's own advise-versus-run distinction is the test to apply, not job title. The internal exclusions matter too: someone managing a research or production laboratory with an environmental focus needs to check Laboratory Manager against this code directly, since VETASSESS treats them as mutually exclusive occupations despite the overlapping subject matter.

An honest read on this pathway

Full visa reach, and one of the more clearly explained boundaries in the family — VETASSESS states the manager-versus-consultant distinction in its own words rather than leaving it to inference from an exclusion list alone. That clarity is worth using: an applicant unsure which side of the line their role sits on has an actual test to apply, not just a list of excluded titles to avoid.

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.

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