School Laboratory Technician (ANZSCO 311414)

On the Regional 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 School Laboratory Technician on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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

School Laboratory 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 School Laboratory Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses School Laboratory Technician as a Group C occupation within the Science Technicians cluster, requiring a highly relevant field of study at a minimum AQF Certificate IV level, and covering laboratory-preparation and support work specifically in a school teaching-laboratory setting. This code sits on the Regional Occupation List only, reaching the 494 regional-provisional visa alone — the narrowest reach of any code in the Science Technicians cluster alongside Hydrographer.

Where these applications come unstuck

Both Chemistry Technician and Life Science Technician exclude this code by name on their own occupation pages, confirming VETASSESS treats school laboratory support work as a distinct, narrower occupation from either general chemistry or life-science technical work, not a junior version of them. No Skills in Demand route, no Employer Nomination and no state-nomination route exists under this code regardless of experience or seniority within a school setting.

An honest read on this pathway

For someone whose actual employer and workplace is a school, the pathway exists only for a regional-provisional visa plan, never for employer sponsorship through an education employer — a genuine structural gap worth knowing before assuming a school employer could sponsor this role the way a general laboratory employer might sponsor Chemistry Technician or Science Technicians nec instead, however many years are spent running that school's own laboratory.

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 School Laboratory 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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