Animal Husbandry Technician (ANZSCO 311113)

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 Animal Husbandry 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).

Processing priority

Animal Husbandry Technician 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 Animal Husbandry Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Animal Husbandry Technician as a Group C occupation, requiring the same Certificate IV field-relevance and one-year highly relevant employment basis as its siblings. Its own occupation page excludes Agricultural and Agritech Technician and, separately, "Zookeeper" — a real job title with no dedicated ANZSCO code anywhere in this family, which VETASSESS states directly does not belong under this code despite the obvious overlap in day-to-day animal-care duties.

Where these applications come unstuck

Zoo or wildlife animal-care work is the specific trap here: VETASSESS's own exclusion list names "Zookeeper" directly, so employment evidence built around zoo animal husbandry is evidence for an occupation this code does not cover, and no alternative code in this family names it as suitable either. This code reaches Employer Nomination and Skills in Demand via the Core Skills Occupation List, not the training or regional-provisional visas its sibling Agricultural Technician reaches.

An honest read on this pathway

For genuine livestock or farm animal husbandry work, the pathway is open on the same terms as its CSOL siblings — direct sponsorship routes, no points-tested option. For zoo, wildlife park or conservation animal-care work, this dossier found no code in the family that names it as suitable, which is a gap worth raising with a migration professional rather than assuming this title's overlap with "Zookeeper" duties will be accepted by default.

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 Animal Husbandry 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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