Agricultural and Agritech Technician (ANZSCO 311112)

On the 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 Agricultural and Agritech Technician on?

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 in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
• Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Agricultural and Agritech Technician comes from:

• Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Agricultural and Agritech Technician as a Group C occupation on the same Certificate IV field-relevance and one-year employment basis as its neighbours in this cluster. Its own occupation page excludes two of its own siblings by name — Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician and Irrigation Designer — while saying nothing about Agricultural Technician or Animal Husbandry Technician, so the exclusion runs in one direction only, not against every code in the five-code cluster.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code sits on the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching the Skills in Demand visa and Employer Nomination but not the 407 training visa or the 491/494 regional-provisional visas that its plainer-titled sibling, Agricultural Technician, reaches instead. An applicant whose actual work is closer to that broader title, but who nominates this one because it sounds more specific and technical, risks losing the regional or training route without gaining anything the broader code did not already offer for sponsorship.

An honest read on this pathway

The pathway is genuinely open for employer sponsorship, which is the visa route this code was built for. It is not a fallback for someone who cannot secure a sponsoring employer — no state-nomination, training or regional-provisional route exists under this code at all, so the whole plan depends on finding an employer willing to sponsor before or during the process, not on the strength of the qualification alone.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Agricultural and Agritech Technician is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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Related occupations

• Agricultural Technician (311111)
• Animal Husbandry Technician (311113)
• Aquaculture or Fisheries Technician (311114)
• Irrigation Designer (311115)

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