Radiocommunications Technician (ANZSCO 313211)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Radiocommunications 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.

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 Radiocommunications Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

TRA assesses Radiocommunications Technician — installing, maintaining, repairing and diagnosing faults in microwave, telemetry, multiplexing, satellite and other radio and electromagnetic-wave systems — through the same program structure as the rest of this family, chosen by occupation, passport, study location and visa sought. TRA's general evidence standard applies: no work-experience substitute for a formal qualification, no occupational-licence substitute either, and bachelor's degrees generally treated as short of the practical trade content the assessment wants. TRA does not publish which specific AQF level it expects for this code on any page this research could reach.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code is the outlier in its own ANZSCO unit group, and that is the trap. Its three neighbours — Telecommunications Field Engineer, Telecommunications Network Planner, and Telecommunications Technical Officer or Technologist — are all assessed by Engineers Australia and all reach the full eight-visa spread. This code alone is assessed by TRA and carries no Core Skills Occupation List membership at all. An applicant reasoning from a colleague's outcome in one of those adjacent roles — same unit group, so presumably the same visa options — is planning around an employer-sponsored pathway that does not exist for this specific code.

An honest read on this pathway

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List only, with no Core Skills Occupation List entry, so no direct employer-sponsorship route exists for this code at all. The realistic permanent routes run through the points test, a state or territory nomination, a regional pathway, or the Training visa — not direct sponsorship. Whether any current labour agreement covers this occupation specifically could not be confirmed from published sources, so treat that route as unresolved rather than open.

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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