Technical Director (ANZSCO 212317)

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 Technical Director 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 Technical Director comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Technical Director is a Group B occupation on both the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List. Its own suitable-occupations list names only Technical Producer. It sits among the codes that Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), Film and Video Editor, and Video Producer's own pages each separately exclude by name, confirming it is treated as a distinct occupation within the directing and production cluster rather than a technical subset of any of them.

Where these applications come unstuck

'Technical Director' can read as a support role subordinate to a creative director, but the visa list runs the other way inside this cluster: Technical Director reaches employer-sponsored visas that the plain Director title does not. An applicant whose title includes 'technical' should not assume that makes the role a weaker migration case than a more senior-sounding creative title in the same production — check the actual list, not the apparent seniority of the job title.

An honest read on this pathway

Technical Director reaches six visas — 186, 190, 407, 482, 491, 494 — via combined STSOL and CSOL membership, including both employer-sponsored routes. That is a materially better reach than Director (Film, Television, Radio or Stage), which despite sounding like the more senior title is Short-term Skilled Occupation List only and cannot reach 482 or 186 at all under its own code.

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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