Engineering Technologist (ANZSCO 233914)

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 Engineering Technologist 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 Engineering Technologist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

233914 does double duty: it is both one of Engineers Australia's four occupational categories and one of the 31 specific occupations selectable under CDR. Technologists hold a three-year engineering technology degree accredited or recognised by EA, or a comparable overseas qualification accredited under the Sydney Accord specifically — not Washington or Dublin. Because occupation auto-populates category, nominating 233914 as your occupation and being assessed into the Engineering Technologist category are, for this code, the same event. It carries five named specialisations: Biomedical, Industrial, Mining, Safety and Structural Engineering Technologist.

Where these applications come unstuck

233914 sits at the centre of a confusion this dossier found real, first-hand evidence of. A 2008 forum thread shows an applicant asking whether to apply as "Engineer(nec)" and being told to nominate "Engineering Technologist NEC" on the strength of "generic engineering knowledge" — collapsing two now-separate codes into one, and treating a specific technologist occupation as an easy catch-all. Under the current ANZSCO structure, Engineering Technologist and Engineering Professionals nec are different codes with different scopes: nec has a fixed eight-occupation list, and technologist is a distinct, discipline-agnostic occupation with its own five named specialisations.

An honest read on this pathway

Full visa reach, same eight visas as every 2339 code. EA's own Stage 1 Competency Standard is explicit that a technologist's expertise within a specialist field can be fully equivalent to a Professional Engineer's — the category divide is about breadth of system-level and stakeholder responsibility, not lesser skill. Moving up later, EA calls it "articulation," usually via a further accredited degree or a fresh competency assessment; whether it can be applied against an already-issued migration outcome letter is unresolved.

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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