Naval Architect (ANZSCO 233916)

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 Naval Architect 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 Naval Architect comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses Naval Architect through the same accredited-qualification-or-CDR route as the rest of this family. ANZSCO describes the occupation, alternative title Marine Designer, as designing and overseeing the construction and repair of marine craft and floating structures. As with every 2339 code, nominating Naval Architect auto-populates your category as Professional Engineer. This code sits entirely outside AMSA's separate maritime skills-assessment scheme — AMSA's own scope and exclusion lists are both built around unit group 2312, and 233916 sits in 2339, so Engineers Australia is the sole assessing authority here.

Where these applications come unstuck

The genuine trap is assuming a naval architecture degree opens a route through AMSA. It does not open Naval Architect, since AMSA never assesses that code — but AMSA's own published example of an accepted qualification for its separate Marine Surveyor occupation (231215, no sea service required, professional-experience-based) is a naval architecture and ocean engineering degree with post-degree experience. A graduate can genuinely qualify for either Naval Architect (this code, EA, CDR-based) or Marine Surveyor (a different code, a different authority, an experience-based test) with the same degree — they are two different jobs, not two names for one.

An honest read on this pathway

Full MLTSSL and CSOL membership, reaching the same eight visas as every code in this family, and the assessing pathway is genuinely open. The decision that actually matters is which of the two occupations — Naval Architect through EA, or Marine Surveyor through AMSA — fits the work you actually want to do, since they lead to different assessment processes entirely. No first-hand applicant account specific to this 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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