Industrial Pharmacist (ANZSCO 251512)

On the Short-term Skilled 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 Industrial Pharmacist on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Industrial Pharmacist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Industrial Pharmacist as distinct from the clinical and research pharmacy fields around it, stating the exclusion directly: "Occupations not considered under this ANZSCO code: Chemist Pharmacologist (Non-clinical) Clinical Pharmacologist These occupations are classified elsewhere in ANZSCO." The occupation description centres on manufacturing, quality and regulatory-affairs pharmacy work rather than clinical dispensing. Industrial Pharmacist sits on STSOL plus CSOL, reaching eight visas including 189, 186 and 482 — the full visa range this family offers. VETASSESS's page does not name Hospital Pharmacist or Retail Pharmacist as an exclusion, but the occupation's own manufacturing and regulatory-affairs focus is task-distinct from dispensing roles in a clinical setting.

Where these applications come unstuck

The pitfall is assuming any pharmacy qualification transfers cleanly onto this code. VETASSESS names Chemist and both non-clinical and clinical Pharmacologist as excluded fields, which means a research-chemistry or pharmacology background is not automatically treated as highly relevant here even though it sounds pharmacy-adjacent. Applicants whose actual work sits closer to clinical dispensing than to manufacturing, quality assurance or regulatory affairs should check whether Hospital Pharmacist or Retail Pharmacist better matches their evidence, since Industrial Pharmacist's own occupation description does not cover dispensing-focused roles even though VETASSESS's exclusion list does not name those two codes directly.

An honest read on this pathway

Industrial Pharmacist's list position — STSOL plus CSOL, eight visas — matches the strongest codes in this family. This guide could not confirm whether Industrial Pharmacist work performed inside a pharmacy dispensing context intersects Pharmacy Board of Australia registration scope; VETASSESS's own occupation page for this code does not name any registration body at all, and this dossier did not reach the Pharmacy Board's own site to check where the boundary sits. Anyone whose role touches dispensing, even partly, alongside manufacturing or regulatory-affairs work should check directly with the Pharmacy Board of Australia rather than assuming a VETASSESS outcome alone settles the registration question.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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