Electronic Engineering Technician (ANZSCO 312412)

On the Regional 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 Electronic Engineering 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.

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 Electronic Engineering Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

TRA assesses Electronic Engineering Technician under the same program structure as its electrical counterpart — Migration Skills Assessment, the Temporary Skills Shortage program, the Offshore Skills Assessment Program or the Job Ready Program, chosen by occupation, passport, study location and visa type. The qualification bar is the same too: TRA does not accept work experience as a substitute for a formal qualification, an occupational licence cannot substitute for one either, and a bachelor's degree is treated as generally short of the practical trade content a trade-related occupation needs. As with the rest of this family, the exact AQF level TRA expects for this specific code sits only inside a downloadable document, not a published page.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap here cuts the opposite way from the electrical pair. 312411 Electronic Engineering Draftsperson, this code's Engineers-Australia-assessed neighbour, is restricted to the Regional Occupation List and a single visa. This code carries the Regional Occupation List plus the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching two employer-sponsored visas the Draftsperson code cannot. Nominating this Technician code purely to chase that wider reach, when your actual work is drafting and design rather than testing, building or assembling circuitry, hands TRA a case file shaped for the wrong body's criteria — a different, harder mismatch than simply picking the narrower-reaching code.

An honest read on this pathway

On the Regional Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching three visas — narrower than the electrical Technician code, but wider than its own Draftsperson sibling. A genuinely open pathway for someone whose real duties are testing and circuit assembly, not drawing plans. ANZSCO flags this occupation, like the electrical pair, for possible registration or licensing — a separate matter a TRA skills assessment does not resolve, and one this research could not verify occupation-by-occupation against any specific state regime.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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