Plasterer (Wall and Ceiling) (ANZSCO 333211)

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 Plasterer (Wall and Ceiling) 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 Plasterer (Wall and Ceiling) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Plasterer (Wall and Ceiling) is ANZSCO 2022's current name for the same code — 333211 — carrying the alternative titles Drywall Plasterer and Wall and Ceiling Fixer and the specialisation Ceiling Fixer, in a unit group ABS now calls Plasterers and Renderers. It describes fixing plasterboard partitions, suspended ceilings, fire rating systems, acoustic ceiling panels and composite wall linings. Home Affairs' Core Skills Occupation List uses this current name, so an employer-sponsored 482 or 186 applicant nominates here rather than under the older Fibrous Plasterer name. TRA runs no occupation-specific page for it; assessment is the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment, requiring a formal trade qualification and documented pay evidence for every claimed employment period.

Where these applications come unstuck

The risk runs opposite to the Fibrous Plasterer row: nominating Plasterer (Wall and Ceiling) for a points-tested 189 or 491, or a post-study 485, application would target a list — the Core Skills Occupation List — that does not carry those visas under this name. TRA's own construction-streamlining PDF actually names this trade using the older Fibrous Plasterer label even while marking it Prioritised, a small but real signal that TRA's construction material draws from the earlier edition's naming, not this current one. NSW licenses this same trade as dry plastering, requiring a Certificate III in Wall and Ceiling Lining or a named equivalent, independent of whichever ANZSCO name a federal application uses.

An honest read on this pathway

Under this name, the code reaches subclass 186 and 482 only — the sponsored routes, subject to the usual salary-threshold rules — and not the points-tested or post-study visas that sit with the Fibrous Plasterer row instead. Faster processing applies regardless of name: TRA's construction occupations list marks this trade Prioritised, though not Streamlined, so no document-only shortcut exists for any passport country. The two names describe identical day-to-day work; which one is correct to nominate depends entirely on the visa programme actually being pursued, not on which title reads more like the applicant's real job.

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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