Engineering Patternmaker (ANZSCO 323411)

On the Regional Occupation 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 Engineering Patternmaker on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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 Engineering Patternmaker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Engineering Patternmaker follows TRA's standard six-program structure — occupation, passport country, study location and visa type decide which applies, and no per-occupation qualification page exists for it. ANZSCO describes the work specifically as constructing full-size engineering models, usually made from timber, used to produce metal castings and tooling for manufacturing. TRA's general Migration Skills Assessment rule applies without a named exception for this trade: a formal qualification is required, and neither work experience nor an occupational licence can substitute for one.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap that matters most for this code is nominating Toolmaker instead, or the reverse, on the assumption they're two names for the same precision-workshop trade. They aren't: Patternmaker's work is largely timber pattern and mould making, while Toolmaker is precision metal tooling, and the list membership behind each is genuinely different — treating the two as interchangeable can mean supplying evidence that doesn't match the nominated code's actual description.

An honest read on this pathway

Engineering Patternmaker sits on the Regional Occupation List plus the CSOL, reaching only 186, 482 and 494 — standard employer sponsorship and regional routes are open, but the STSOL/MLTSSL spread its unit-group neighbour Toolmaker carries is not, so this code has no 190, no 407, no 189 and no 485. Someone whose actual work sits closer to Toolmaker's precision-metal description is, in practice, choosing between materially different visa doors by nominating one code over the other.

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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