Maintenance Planner (ANZSCO 312911)

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 Maintenance Planner 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).

Processing priority

Maintenance Planner is a construction occupation under Directions 121 and 122 (ANZSCO Unit Group 3129, Other Building and Engineering Technicians). Since 19 September 2026, skilled visa applications by a primary applicant in this occupation are in the first group processed: for the 482 under Direction 121, and for the permanent and provisional skilled visas, including the 186, 189, 190, 491 and 494, under Direction 122.

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 Maintenance Planner comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Maintenance Planner as a Group C occupation covering planning and scheduling of industrial or engineering maintenance work. This code sits on both the Regional Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching five of the six visas covered in this family — Employer Nomination, the training visa and both regional-provisional visas — the only code in the 3129 sub-cluster besides the nec code to combine ROL and CSOL membership.

Where these applications come unstuck

Building and Engineering Technicians nec's own exclusion list names Maintenance Planner directly, alongside Metallurgical or Materials Technician, Mine Deputy and several construction-technician titles from the neighbouring family — confirming VETASSESS treats this as a distinct, dedicated occupation rather than a sub-type that should default to the nec catch-all. No overlay licensing or professional-registration requirement specific to this title was found in this pass.

An honest read on this pathway

The combined ROL-plus-CSOL membership gives this code a genuinely broad reach across both the training/regional and the sponsorship routes at once, which is unusual in this family — most codes sit on one list or the other, not both. The one visa it does not reach is 190 state nomination, the same gap carried by the nec code, Building and Engineering Technicians nec.

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 Maintenance Planner 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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