Chemistry Technician (ANZSCO 311411)

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 Chemistry Technician 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 Chemistry Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Chemistry Technician as a Group C occupation on the family's Certificate IV field-relevance basis. Its own exclusion list spans two different risks at once: Chemist, Biochemist and Industrial Pharmacist are degree-level professional occupations from an entirely different unit group, while Life Science Technician, Earth Science Technician and School Laboratory Technician are this code's own siblings within the same Science Technicians cluster.

Where these applications come unstuck

Someone with a chemistry background could misfire in either direction named on this single exclusion list — nominating this technician-level code for genuinely degree-level chemist or biochemist work, or nominating it when the actual laboratory work is closer to life-science or earth-science testing. Chemistry Technician sits on the Short-term list plus the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching all six visas — a materially wider reach than Life Science Technician, which does not reach 482 or 186 at all.

An honest read on this pathway

For genuinely chemistry-specific laboratory technical work, the pathway is the strongest in the Science Technicians cluster on visa reach alone. The exclusion list is not a formality — it is VETASSESS drawing the boundary against both a higher skill tier (Chemist, Biochemist) and adjacent technician specialities (Life Science, Earth Science, School Laboratory) in the same sentence, which is worth reading closely rather than assuming any lab-technician background fits 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.

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