Fitter (General) (ANZSCO 323211)

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 Fitter (General) 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 Fitter (General) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ANZSCO defines Fitter (General) around fitting and assembling fabricated metal parts and subassemblies, the base duty set that Fitter and Turner and Fitter-Welder each build on with an added secondary skill inside the same unit group, 3232 Metal Fitters and Machinists. Fitter (General) shares the full MLTSSL/CSOL, eight-visa spread with most of that unit group, so nomination among the fitting-trade codes is a duties question rather than a visa-strategy one — TRA's own criteria for distinguishing them could not be verified here, since its website did not resolve.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap specific to this unit group is nominating a more senior-sounding code — Fitter and Turner or Fitter-Welder — on evidence that only supports the base Fitter (General) duty set, or the reverse: under-claiming into General when the applicant's actual work included the machining or welding add-on those other codes require. ANZSCO's own wording distinguishes them by the specific secondary skill added, not by seniority or job title, so the evidence has to match the specific duties, not the impressiveness of the title on a foreign payslip.

An honest read on this pathway

Fitter (General) reaches the same full eight-visa spread as Fitter and Turner and Fitter-Welder in the same unit group, so there is no visa-list reason to prefer one code over another — accuracy against the applicant's actual duties is what should drive the choice. This research did not confirm state-level licensing requirements specific to fitting trades; the state pages fetched for this family concentrated on electrical and plumbing licensing, and fitting work was not separately checked against any state trade-licensing regulator.

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.

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