Materials Engineer (ANZSCO 233112)

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 Materials Engineer 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 Materials Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia runs the same six-step process here as for every code in this family: check the qualification, confirm which of its four occupational categories it maps to, choose the accredited or Competency Demonstration Report pathway, prepare, submit, receive the outcome. Category assignment follows degree length and accreditation — a four-year accredited degree suits Professional Engineer, a three-year technology degree suits Engineering Technologist — and is not a matter of self-selection or overseas job title.

Where these applications come unstuck

Materials Engineer's closest confusion is Chemical Engineer (233111), its sibling on identical lists and visas. ANZSCO's split is functional: Materials Engineer investigates the properties of metals, ceramics, polymers and other materials and develops their engineering and commercial applications, while Chemical Engineer designs process systems and plants. An applicant whose real work is materials selection and testing but who nominates Chemical Engineer risks a negative outcome even though the visa list is unaffected either way — the career episodes simply won't read as the right discipline.

An honest read on this pathway

MLTSSL and CSOL both, reaching all eight skilled visas — 186, 189, 190, 407, 482, 485, 491 and 494. A genuinely open pathway on the list side; the discipline the applicant actually practises, not the code that sounds closest to their job title, is what should decide the nomination. Sponsors in this space are more likely to be found among mining, resources and manufacturing employers than through regional labour agreements, which barely touch materials engineering as a discipline. Standard applications take roughly 15 weeks to reach an assessor before the technical review even starts.

Preparing a CDR for Engineers Australia? The CDR Organiser structures your three career episodes and summary statement against the assessment criteria — your own writing, organised properly. Engineers Australia runs plagiarism detection, so a ghost-written CDR is a real risk to your application.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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