Telecommunications Network Planner (ANZSCO 313213)

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 Telecommunications Network Planner 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 Telecommunications Network Planner comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses this at the Engineering Associate tier, alongside its two telecommunications technical siblings in ANZSCO unit group 3132. ANZSCO describes the function narrowly: planning the development of customer access telecommunications network infrastructure — an access-network-specific role, narrower than the general field-engineering scope of its sibling code. Because Engineers Australia auto-populates the occupational category from whichever occupation is nominated, this narrower scope matters for how career episodes should be written.

Where these applications come unstuck

The two codes this is most easily confused with sit either side of it in the same unit group: 313212 Telecommunications Field Engineer, a broader plan-design-commission-monitor role, and 313214 Telecommunications Technical Officer or Technologist, the more support and fault-diagnosis-oriented of the three. Because the occupation nominated auto-populates the competency standard applied, choosing the wrong one of the three is a nomination error, not a harmless synonym swap.

An honest read on this pathway

On the MLTSSL and the CSOL, reaching the full eight-visa spread. Genuinely open for an applicant whose actual work is customer access network planning — narrower in scope than its siblings, but with identical visa reach to both. Because the occupation nominated fixes the competency standard Engineers Australia measures against, an applicant whose real experience spans broader field engineering as well as pure access-network planning should think carefully about whether this code or 313212 more accurately reflects the bulk of their evidence.

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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