Science Technicians nec (ANZSCO 311499)

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 Science Technicians nec 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 Science Technicians nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Science Technicians nec as a Group C occupation, the residual catch-all for the Science Technicians cluster. It sits on the Short-term list plus the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching all six visas covered in this family — the same full reach as Chemistry Technician and Earth Science Technician, and materially wider than four of its five numbered siblings.

Where these applications come unstuck

Agricultural Technician's own exclusion list, in the separate Agricultural Technicians cluster, names Science Technicians nec directly as a code it does not cover — confirming this nec code has a defined boundary against at least one other cluster in the family, not an unlimited catch-all. Life Science Technician's own exclusion list also names it, so this code is not automatically available to someone whose life-science-technician nomination was refused.

An honest read on this pathway

The full six-visa reach makes this the strongest code on paper in a cluster where four of the five named siblings reach fewer visas — Life Science Technician reaches four, School Laboratory Technician and Hydrographer reach only one each. But an nec code exists for genuinely unclassified science-technician work, not as a broader alternative to a better-evidenced named occupation; the exclusion lists above show VETASSESS actively polices that boundary rather than leaving it open.

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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