Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) (ANZSCO 233611)

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 Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) 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 Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) through the same Professional Engineer route as the rest of this family — Accord-accredited qualification recognition where it applies, otherwise a Competency Demonstration Report of three Career Episodes, a Summary Statement, CPD evidence and an employer reference. The 'excluding Petroleum' wording in the occupation title is doing real work: it explicitly carves this code away from Petroleum Engineer, and the occupation is defined around mining operations, ore extraction, mine planning and mining equipment rather than oil and gas work. Career Episodes need to demonstrate mine engineering and mineral-extraction competency specifically, not general mechanical or civil work that happens to occur on a mine site.

Where these applications come unstuck

The recurring trap is context confusion: an applicant whose actual work is mechanical engineering of mining equipment — designing or specifying machinery used on site — is not automatically a Mining Engineer for nomination purposes. If the underlying competency is mechanical design, Mechanical Engineer is the correct code even though the work happens in a mining context; if the underlying competency is mine planning, ore processing or extraction engineering, Mining Engineer is correct. Assessors read the primary occupational competency evidenced in the Career Episodes, not the industry the applicant happened to work in.

An honest read on this pathway

Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) sits on both the MLTSSL and CSOL, giving it the same broad visa range as the rest of this family. The exclusion in the title is not cosmetic — it is the line Engineers Australia draws between mining and petroleum work, and getting the code wrong risks a rejection on competency grounds, not a quick paperwork fix. A positive assessment does not require any further registration to work as a mining engineer once the visa is granted; the mining industry does not licence the engineering role itself, though individual employers may set their own site-specific requirements.

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 Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) pathway guide.

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