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).

Processing priority

Engineering Technologist 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 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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