Sheetmetal Worker (ANZSCO 322211)

On the 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 Worker on?

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 Worker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

This occupation is assessed under ANZSCO 2022's current name for code 322211 — Sheetmetal Worker, alternative title Sheetmetal Fabricator — the name ABS now uses after dropping the Metal Spinner and Sheetmetal Patternmaker specialisations that the older edition attached to the same code. Home Affairs' Core Skills Occupation List uses this name. TRA runs no page specific to this occupation; because it carries no Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List or Short-term Skilled Occupations List membership, it sits outside the literal wording TRA uses for Migration Skills Assessment eligibility.

Where these applications come unstuck

The literal-wording gap matters more here than for most of this family: TRA's MSA, Offshore Skills Assessment and TSS eligibility sentences name only the two strategic lists, never the Core Skills Occupation List this occupation actually sits on, so confirming the correct program with TRA or Home Affairs directly is worth doing rather than assuming. Researching this trade under its older name, Sheetmetal Trades Worker, will surface a different visa list — 189, 190, 407, 485 and 491 instead of this row's 186 and 482 — which is a genuine source of confusion, not interchangeable phrasing.

An honest read on this pathway

Sheetmetal Worker reaches subclass 186 and 482 only, through Core Skills Occupation List membership — the sponsored route, subject to the usual salary-threshold rules for that stream. It does not reach the points-tested 189 or the post-study 485, which sit instead under this same code's older-edition name. This trade is also distinct from Metal Fabricator and Welder, which sit in a different unit group and carry access to TRA's construction-industry processing streamlining that this occupation does not share.

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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