Renderer (Solid Plaster) (ANZSCO 333212)

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 Renderer (Solid Plaster) 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 Renderer (Solid Plaster) comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Renderer (Solid Plaster) is ANZSCO 2022's current name for code 333212, with Solid Plasterer listed as an alternative title on that same current page — covering decorative and protective coverings of plaster, cement and similar materials applied to the interiors and exteriors of structures. This is the name Home Affairs' Core Skills Occupation List uses, so an employer-sponsored 482 or 186 applicant nominates here. TRA has no occupation-specific page for it; the route is the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment, requiring a formal trade qualification and verifiable pay evidence for every claimed period of paid employment, with no allowance for experience or an occupational licence in place of one.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code carries a genuinely confusing naming oddity worth understanding before nominating. ABS's own current 2022 page treats “Solid Plasterer” as merely an alternative title of this occupation, Renderer (Solid Plaster) — not a separate edition name. Home Affairs' Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List nonetheless attaches that identical label, “Solid Plasterer”, to the older edition's separate unit group instead, carrying a different visa list. So the same two words point to two different official rows depending on which document is read, and nominating Renderer (Solid Plaster) for a points-tested 189 or 491 route targets the wrong list entirely.

An honest read on this pathway

Renderer (Solid Plaster) reaches subclass 186 and 482 only, through Core Skills Occupation List membership — not the points-tested 189 or post-study 485, which sit with the separate MLTSSL row despite sharing much of the same name. NSW licenses this exact work as wet plastering, its own trade category requiring a Certificate III in Solid Plastering or a named equivalent, on top of whatever the federal assessment and visa outcome turn out to be. Faster TRA processing applies under the older name TRA's own construction list uses (Solid Plasterer), not this current ABS name, so the paperwork trail genuinely differs depending on which name a document was written against.

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

Whether nominating Renderer (Solid Plaster) is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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