Electrical Engineer (ANZSCO 233311)

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 Electrical 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 Electrical Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses Electrical Engineer through an accredited-qualification pathway (Washington Accord degrees, including Australian ones) or a Competency Demonstration Report for everyone else. The CDR needs three Career Episodes covering distinct engineering projects or work phases, a Summary Statement mapping each episode against Engineers Australia's stage 1 competency elements, and a Continuing Professional Development log — the qualification alone does not carry a CDR application.

Where these applications come unstuck

The most common problem is Career Episodes written as job descriptions rather than first-person accounts of what the applicant personally analysed, decided or designed — Engineers Australia is assessing the applicant's own competency, not the project's success. A Summary Statement that doesn't map cleanly to every competency element, or episodes that overlap in content rather than showing range, also draws a request for more information or a negative outcome.

An honest read on this pathway

Electrical Engineer sits on both the MLTSSL and CSOL with the widest visa spread of any occupation on this list, so the pathway is genuinely open at both points-tested and employer-sponsored ends. The CDR itself is a substantial writing task most applicants underestimate the first time.

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.

We've also written a full pathway guide for this occupation: read the Electrical Engineer pathway guide.

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