Building and Engineering Technicians nec (ANZSCO 312999)

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 Building and Engineering Technicians nec 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

Building and Engineering Technicians nec 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

Building and Engineering Technicians nec can be assessed by any of these authorities:

What the assessment actually involves

Migratio's occupation data records two assessing authorities for this code, VETASSESS and Engineers Australia, but the VETASSESS occupation page fetched directly for this research makes no mention of Engineers Australia, and no Engineers Australia page naming this ANZSCO code was located in this research pass. As a Group C occupation on VETASSESS's own framework, it reaches five of six visas via combined Short-term and Core Skills Occupation List membership — missing only 190 state nomination.

Where these applications come unstuck

Its own exclusion list is genuinely long — twelve named titles, including Maintenance Planner, Metallurgical or Materials Technician, Mine Deputy and seven titles from the neighbouring construction-managers-and-technicians family (Civil Engineering Draftsperson, Civil Engineering Technician, Architectural Draftsperson, Building Associate, Building Inspector, Construction Estimator, Plumbing Inspector, and Architectural, Building and Surveying Technicians nec). This is close to the opposite of a safe default nec code for anyone whose work fits a more specific title.

An honest read on this pathway

Despite the long exclusion list, this code's suitable-occupations list separately names Aerospace Draftsperson, Mining Detail Draftsperson and Shipbuilding Draftsperson — the same titles Other Draftsperson's own suitable list also names, creating a genuine overlap between two codes even as one of them (this one) excludes a long list of neighbouring titles. Whether Engineers Australia plays any real secondary role here could not be confirmed and should be checked directly before relying on it.

Preparing a CDR for Engineers Australia? The CDR Organiser structures your three career episodes and summary statement against the assessment criteria — your own writing, organised properly. Engineers Australia runs plagiarism detection, so a ghost-written CDR is a real risk to your application.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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