Transport Engineer (ANZSCO 233215)

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 Transport 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 Transport Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses this code, and the CDR application asks you to choose from a list of engineering occupations set by the Australian government. Choosing one auto-populates the ANZSCO code, skill level and occupational category, so the choice is made early and carries through the whole assessment. Transport Engineer is a good example of EA's rule that seeking an occupation different from your accredited qualification title requires a CDR: a general engineering graduate who has specialised into traffic and transport work goes through CDR even with an accredited degree.

Where these applications come unstuck

Where a role sits between transport planning and civil design, EA's own guidance is to pick the closest match by description and task against the ANZSCO definitions rather than by job title, and that judgement is the applicant's to make and defend. Transport work also generates a lot of modelling and feasibility output that reads as analysis support rather than engineering decisions, so career episodes need to name what you decided, not what the model produced.

An honest read on this pathway

On the MLTSSL and CSOL like the rest of the 2332 group, so the code reaches the full visa range. It is a smaller field than civil or structural, which cuts both ways: fewer competing applicants, but also fewer assessors familiar with the shape of the work, which raises the value of writing episodes that spell out the engineering reasoning. Budget for EA's roughly 15-week wait before assignment, and check whether the state you are moving to registers transport engineers before assuming the assessment is enough.

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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