Fire Protection Plumber (ANZSCO 334117)

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 Fire Protection Plumber 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 Fire Protection Plumber comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Fire Protection Plumber is the narrowest plumbing code in this family: CSOL only, reaching just two visa subclasses (186 and 482), against Plumber (General) 334116's eight-subclass spread on MLTSSL. ANZSCO defines the two occupations as mutually exclusive rather than as a specialisation sitting inside general plumbing — the 2022 edition states 334117 "installs, tests, services and repairs water-based fire protection systems, including fire hydrants, hose reels and sprinkler systems," while 334116 is redefined to cover plumbing "other than water-based fire protection systems." Someone whose real specialism is fire-suppression systems should not default to 334116 for its stronger visa list if that is not where their duties sit.

Where these applications come unstuck

The consequence of nominating the wrong one of these two codes is concrete, not academic: 334117 closes off 189 (Skilled Independent), 190, 407, 485, 491 and 494 entirely, leaving only 186 and 482. An applicant whose real work history is general plumbing with occasional fire-system exposure has real reason to check whether 334116 is the accurate code before assuming 334117 fits their job title — and the reverse also holds, since fire-suppression specialists should not under-claim into 334116 just because its list is stronger.

An honest read on this pathway

Fire Protection Plumber's visa reach is the narrowest of any code in this plumbing family — no 189, no 190, no 407, no 485, no 491, no 494, only 186 and 482. This is not TRA being stricter with this code; it is ANZSCO defining a genuinely different, narrower occupation from general plumbing since the 2022 edition. NSW's licensed-trades framework treats fire-protection and plumbing licensing separately from carpentry-type non-licensed trades, and this research did not confirm the specific licensing pathway for fire-protection plumbing beyond that general point.

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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