Environmental Engineer (ANZSCO 233915)

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 Environmental 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 Environmental Engineer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses Environmental Engineer through the same accredited-qualification-or-CDR structure as the rest of this family. ANZSCO describes the occupation as assessing impact on air, water, soil and noise levels around engineering projects and, by extension, designing the waste treatment and disposal processes that manage that impact. As with every 2339 code, nominating Environmental Engineer from EA's occupation list auto-populates your category as Professional Engineer, committing your Career Episodes to that standard specifically rather than a general environmental-science or generic-engineering one.

Where these applications come unstuck

Like Aeronautical and Naval Architect, Environmental Engineer has no matching specialisation under Engineering Technologist (233914) — the technologist code's named specialisations are Biomedical, Industrial, Mining, Safety and Structural, not Environmental — so someone at Sydney Accord depth working environmental engineering has to nominate 233914 generically rather than finding a discipline-matched technologist variant. State engineer-registration schemes (ACT, Victoria, Queensland) are, as currently published, built around named disciplines — civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire safety — that do not name environmental engineering either.

An honest read on this pathway

Full MLTSSL and CSOL membership, reaching the same eight visas as every code in this family, with no data-integrity flag against this code's list or visa figures. This dossier could not verify any first-hand applicant account specific to Environmental Engineer, nor any labour agreement naming it — the realistic sponsorship route is a direct employer, most plausibly an environmental consultancy, rather than any labour-agreement lane.

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 Environmental Engineer pathway guide.

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