Telecommunications Technical Officer or Technologist (ANZSCO 313214)

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 Technical Officer or Technologist 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 Technical Officer or Technologist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineers Australia assesses this at the Engineering Associate tier, though its own name — Telecommunications Technical Officer or Technologist — signals it may in practice draw applicants whose qualification would otherwise map to Engineering Technologist (a three-year degree) as well as Engineering Associate holders. ANZSCO describes the broadest scope of the three sibling codes: specialised design and support functions including optimisation, performance monitoring, fault diagnosis and equipment selection.

Where these applications come unstuck

Its breadth is also its risk. This code can be confused with either sibling — 313212 Telecommunications Field Engineer's planning and design focus, or 313213 Telecommunications Network Planner's narrower access-network scope — and its fault-diagnosis and support language sits close enough to 313211 Radiocommunications Technician's install-maintain-repair function that an applicant should check carefully which body, Engineers Australia or Trades Recognition Australia, actually fits their work.

An honest read on this pathway

On the MLTSSL and the CSOL, with the full eight-visa reach. Genuinely open, and — because of its breadth — worth nominating deliberately rather than by default just because the name sounds like it covers everything. An applicant whose real work sits closer to installing, maintaining or repairing radio and telemetry equipment, rather than design, optimisation or fault diagnosis at a systems level, should check whether Trades Recognition Australia's Radiocommunications Technician code is the more accurate nomination before defaulting here.

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.

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