Laboratory Manager (ANZSCO 139913)

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 Laboratory Manager 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 Laboratory Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Laboratory Manager is a VETASSESS Group B occupation on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visa subclasses. Unlike most of this family's codes, its page carries no published exclusion list of named neighbouring occupations. What it does state is a setting-based boundary: employment managing a laboratory that is not in a research or production setting, such as pathology or general practitioner clinics, will not be assessed positively — a rule stated by the type of laboratory, not by job title.

Where these applications come unstuck

Managing a diagnostic laboratory inside a pathology service or a GP clinic is, by ordinary standards, one of the most common real-world laboratory-management jobs — and it is the one setting VETASSESS explicitly rules out for this code. An applicant whose laboratory-management experience is entirely clinical or diagnostic, rather than in research or manufacturing production, does not have a workaround here; the setting itself is the test, independent of how senior or well-documented the role is.

An honest read on this pathway

Solidly open for research or production laboratory management — six subclasses, employer sponsorship included — and closed by the code's own stated wording for the clinical and diagnostic setting many laboratory managers actually work in. Confirm which category the actual laboratory falls into before assuming this code fits; a well-run pathology lab manager is not automatically a fit here regardless of the seniority of the role.

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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