Lift Mechanic (ANZSCO 341113)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Lift Mechanic 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.

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 Lift Mechanic comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Lift Mechanic is the narrowest electrical code in this family on paper: it sits on MLTSSL only, and occupations.json records it without access to the 186 employer-nomination visa or the 482 sponsored visa that every other electrical trade code in this family carries — only 189, 190, 407, 485, 491 and 494 are open. Whether Victoria, NSW, Queensland or WA licence lift work through the same electrical-licensing pathway documented for general electricians, or through a separate lift-specific regulator, was not confirmed in this research; the state pages fetched for this family covered general electrical licensing, not lift or elevator work specifically.

Where these applications come unstuck

The pitfall specific to this code is assuming its electrical-sounding name means it inherits the same visa reach as Electrician (General) or Electrician (Special Class). It does not: no 186, no 482. An applicant whose employer wants to sponsor them directly, or who is counting on a 186 as the endpoint of a temporary visa, is looking at the wrong code if their actual work is lift mechanics rather than general electrical installation — the two are not interchangeable options inside the same visa strategy, because one closes off employer sponsorship routes the other keeps open.

An honest read on this pathway

Lift Mechanic reaches six visa subclasses against the eight available to Electrician (General) and (Special Class), with 186 and 482 specifically absent — an applicant relying on employer sponsorship needs to check this before assuming any electrical trade code will do. This research could not confirm what state licensing regime, if any, applies specifically to lift and escalator mechanics beyond the general electrical-licensing pattern documented for 341111 and 341112 in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and WA — treat that as an open question, not a settled one, until checked against the relevant state regulator directly.

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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