Pressure Welder (ANZSCO 322312)

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 Pressure Welder 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 Pressure Welder comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Pressure Welder sits in the same ANZSCO unit group as Metal Fabricator and Welder (First Class), 3223 Structural Steel and Welding Trades Workers, carrying the identical full MLTSSL/CSOL visa spread. Its name signals a specific and safety-relevant scope — welding on pressure equipment — that is distinct from the general fabrication duties defined for Metal Fabricator, though this research could not verify TRA's own evidence requirements for pressure welding specifically, since the authority's website did not resolve during this session.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap worth flagging for pressure welding specifically is the same one that runs through this whole family: a generic "welder" job title does not establish pressure-equipment-specific duties, and pressure work often carries its own certification requirements separate from a general trade licence in Australian industrial settings — a distinction this research could not confirm or rule out at the state level, since state licensing pages fetched for this family covered electrical and plumbing trades, not welding-specific certification regimes.

An honest read on this pathway

Pressure Welder carries the same full eight-visa reach as the rest of unit group 3223, so the visa position is not the constraint here. What this research left open is whether pressure welding carries its own state-level licensing or certification requirement beyond a TRA skills assessment, the way electrical and plumbing trades clearly do — that gap should be checked directly with the relevant state regulator or industry body before assuming a positive assessment alone is sufficient to work on pressure equipment.

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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