Equipment Hire Manager (ANZSCO 149915)
On the Regional 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 Equipment Hire Manager on?
ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.
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 in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
- Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Equipment Hire Manager comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Equipment Hire Manager is Group C, AQF Diploma or higher, on ROL and CSOL — reaching Employer Nomination and the Skills in Demand main stream, the same reach as Retail Manager (General), Fleet Manager and Boarding Kennel or Cattery Operator. VETASSESS confirms the standard four-pathway structure for this code, with the least demanding route needing four years total employment including one highly relevant year within the last five, and no relevant field of study required.
Where these applications come unstuck
Equipment hire businesses span a wide range of scale, from a single-branch operator to a national chain, and this code's evidence needs to demonstrate genuinely managerial duties — staff supervised, an organisational chart — rather than a role that is primarily hands-on equipment maintenance or counter service. An applicant whose title is manager but whose day-to-day work is largely operational rather than supervisory risks the same evidence gap VETASSESS's general managerial rule creates across this whole family.
An honest read on this pathway
This code's employer-sponsored reach puts it among the family's better-positioned titles for direct sponsorship, well above the narrower 494-only codes like Antique Dealer or Betting Agency Manager. A genuine equipment hire branch or business manager, with staff to manage and the evidence to show it, has a real sponsorship pathway most small-retail-adjacent titles in this family don't share, so the organisational chart is worth preparing thoroughly.
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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