Aeronautical Engineer (ANZSCO 233911)

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 Aeronautical 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 Aeronautical Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses Aeronautical Engineer like every code in this family: an accredited-qualification pathway if your degree is a full Washington, Sydney or Dublin Accord signatory, or a Competency Demonstration Report otherwise — three Career Episodes, a Summary Statement against the competency elements, a CPD record and an employer reference. ANZSCO defines the occupation as performing and supervising engineering work on the design, development, manufacture, maintenance and modification of aircraft for flight. What's easy to miss: choosing this occupation from EA's list auto-populates your occupational category as Professional Engineer — the system never asks separately which category you belong in.

Where these applications come unstuck

Aeronautical Engineer is one of EA's professional-engineer-designated occupations, so nominating it commits your Career Episodes to the Professional Engineer competency standard regardless of how your degree was actually accredited. Someone whose real qualification sits at Sydney Accord (three-year technology) depth has no matching technologist specialisation to fall back on here — unlike structural, biomedical, industrial or mining engineering, aeronautical is not one of the named specialisations under 233914 Engineering Technologist. The only way to nominate at technologist depth is the generic Engineering Technologist occupation itself, not a discipline-specific technologist variant. Getting the category wrong is a competency-standard mismatch, not a paperwork fix.

An honest read on this pathway

The pathway is genuinely open — Aeronautical Engineer sits on both the MLTSSL and the CSOL and reaches the same eight visas as every other code in this family, including 186, 189 and 482. This dossier found nothing specific to aerospace employment demand or sponsor availability; the general aerospace and defence employer base is the realistic sponsorship route rather than any labour agreement, since no agreement register entry names this occupation. Whether your particular qualification actually supports a Professional Engineer file is the real question here, not list membership.

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.

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