Sheetmetal Trades Worker (ANZSCO 322211)

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 Sheetmetal Trades Worker 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 Sheetmetal Trades Worker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

This occupation is assessed under its older ANZSCO name — Sheetmetal Trades Worker, with the specialisations Metal Spinner and Sheetmetal Patternmaker attached — which is the name Home Affairs' Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Core Skills Occupation List still use for code 322211, even though ABS's current ANZSCO 2022 edition renamed the same code Sheetmetal Worker and dropped both specialisations. TRA runs no occupation-specific page under either name; the assessment is the standard document comparison, and this name is what sits inside TRA's literal Migration Skills Assessment wording because it carries strategic-list membership.

Where these applications come unstuck

A Metal Spinner or Sheetmetal Patternmaker specifically should know their specialisation exists under this older ANZSCO name and not under the 2022 edition's Sheetmetal Worker entry, which lists no specialisations at all. This row also carries a Core Skills Occupation List tag despite its visa list not including 186 or 482, the two visas that list is meant to unlock — a known, published inconsistency this dossier reports rather than resolves. Confusing this code with Metal Fabricator or Welder (a different unit group, on the construction streamlining list) is a separate, real risk given the overlapping day-to-day tasks.

An honest read on this pathway

Under this name the code reaches 189, 190, 407, 485, 491 and 494 — the points-tested and post-study routes that the 2022-name Sheetmetal Worker row does not carry — but not 186 or 482. This is not a data error to pick a side of; Home Affairs has not retired either ANZSCO edition's mapping, so both this row and the Sheetmetal Worker row are live simultaneously for the one trade. Which name to research under depends entirely on which visa route is actually being pursued.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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