Electrical Engineering Technician (ANZSCO 312312)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Electrical Engineering Technician on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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 Electrical Engineering Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

CORRECTED 2026-09-04. The 2026-08-29 entry here named a specific qualification TRA supposedly requires for this code. A verified 63-source pass across TRA's whole captured site found that TRA publishes no per-occupation qualification requirement at all, so that figure had nothing behind it. Trades Recognition Australia assesses Electrical Engineering Technician through whichever of its five programs matches your occupation, passport, study location and visa — Migration Skills Assessment for most offshore permanent applicants, the Temporary Skills Shortage program for a Skills in Demand visa, the Job Ready Program for an Australian-RTO graduate. Every route applies the same standard: a formal, trade-relevant qualification is required, work experience cannot substitute for one, and — the sharpest trap for this code — TRA states plainly that a bachelor's degree generally lacks the practical trade content a trade-related occupation needs. TRA does not publish which specific AQF level it wants for this code on any public page; only a downloadable qualifications document does, and its contents were not available to check.

Where these applications come unstuck

The costliest mistake is nominating the wrong one of two near-identical codes. 312311 Electrical Engineering Draftsperson, assessed by Engineers Australia, sits one digit away and shares almost the same task language. ANZSCO's own wording draws the line: the Draftsperson prepares drawings and plans; this code conducts tests of electrical systems and assists in estimating costs. Sending drafting-shaped work to TRA, or testing-and-repair work to Engineers Australia, wastes an entire application at the wrong body with the wrong evidence rules. TRA also carries the trade-assessment warning common to this whole family: employment references, payslips and tax records must corroborate each other, or the application fails on substance rather than paperwork.

An honest read on this pathway

This is the strongest-reaching code in the family: the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List plus the Core Skills Occupation List, and the only one of the seven carrying the full eight-visa spread. Choosing correctly between this code and its Draftsperson sibling is worth real care precisely because, unusually for this family, the two behave identically on list and visa reach — there is no visa incentive pulling an applicant toward the wrong one, only an accuracy one. ANZSCO also flags this occupation for possible registration or licensing, a separate state-run gate a TRA assessment does nothing to satisfy.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

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