Electrical Linesworker (ANZSCO 342211)

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 Electrical Linesworker 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 Electrical Linesworker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

This code carries the Regional Occupation List alongside the CSOL, not the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List that TRA's Migration Skills Assessment eligibility text names outright: “listed on the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills Lists (MLTSSL) or the Short-term Skilled Occupations Lists (STSOL).” TRA's captured pages do not separately spell out CSOL or ROL as qualifying lists in that sentence, which leaves this code's specific MSA eligibility genuinely unclear from what TRA has published — not confirmed either way. It is not one of TRA's four licensed occupations excluded from MSA, and it sits on TRA's Construction Occupations List as Prioritised, though not Streamlined.

Where these applications come unstuck

The job title invites confusion with Telecommunications Linesworker (342413), a different unit group covering phone and data infrastructure rather than the power grid — reference letters describing grid work do not support the telecommunications code. Counter-intuitively, the telecommunications version reaches one more visa: this code's ROL+CSOL list has no subclass 190, while Telecommunications Linesworker's STSOL+CSOL list includes it. Assuming the more “electrical”-sounding job must have the stronger visa reach is exactly backwards here.

An honest read on this pathway

ANZSCO itself flags this occupation as one where “registration or licensing may be required,” but TRA's own captured Licensing page names a dedicated route for only three occupation groups nationally, and this is not one of them. That is a gap in what TRA has published, not evidence no licence is needed — anyone planning to actually work on the grid has to check state or territory requirements directly. The visa pathway itself is real but narrower than its telecommunications counterpart: no subclass 190 route.

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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