Agricultural Engineer (ANZSCO 233912)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Regional Occupation 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 Agricultural 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.

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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).

Processing priority

Agricultural Engineer isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Agricultural Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses Agricultural Engineer through the same accredited-qualification-or-CDR structure as the rest of this family. ANZSCO describes the occupation as performing and supervising engineering work related to the use and development of agricultural land, buildings, machines and equipment. One genuine oddity: this is the only code in the 2339 group carrying three list memberships — MLTSSL, the Regional Occupation List and the CSOL — where its six siblings carry only two. Nominating this occupation, like every other code here, auto-populates your occupational category as Professional Engineer, so a technologist-depth qualification still needs to nominate 233914 directly rather than this code.

Where these applications come unstuck

The three-list membership is a curiosity, not an advantage — MLTSSL and CSOL between them already reach the full eight-visa set, so the added Regional Occupation List membership does not open any visa this code could not already reach, and reading it as a second, easier pathway is a mistake. The more consequential trap is the same category one every 2339 code carries: nominating Agricultural Engineer commits your Career Episodes to the Professional Engineer standard, and there is no agricultural specialisation under Engineering Technologist to fall back on if your real depth sits at three-year, Sydney Accord level.

An honest read on this pathway

Genuinely open on paper — full MLTSSL and CSOL membership reaching all eight visas — but this dossier found no labour agreement or DAMA list naming agricultural engineering specifically, so the realistic sponsorship route is a direct employer, most plausibly an agricultural-equipment manufacturer or agribusiness rather than a farm-worker labour-agreement lane (those cover farm labour occupations, not engineering ones). No first-hand applicant account for this specific code could be verified in this research pass.

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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