Greenkeeper (ANZSCO 362311)

On the Short-term Skilled 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 Greenkeeper on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Greenkeeper comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Greenkeeper sits on TRA's Migration Skills Assessment catch-all, documentary rather than employment-based, and is not one of TRA's four named mandatorily-licensed occupations. What makes this code unusual is not the assessment path but the name itself: ANZSCO's 2022 revision retired the 2013 unit group "Greenkeepers" and split it into Sports Turf Manager and Sports Turf Trades Worker, the latter carrying "Greenkeeper" only as an alternative title. Neither 2022 code appears on Home Affairs' skilled list. The only door in remains the legacy code, 362311, so searching under the current occupation name will not surface this pathway at all.

Where these applications come unstuck

Searching ANZSCO or a careers site for Sports Turf Manager or Sports Turf Trades Worker and concluding no skilled pathway exists for greenkeeping work is a real trap: the current names simply are not on Home Affairs' list, and the legacy title Greenkeeper is what the visa system actually recognises. A second, unrelated pitfall: turf and grounds work often involves pesticide application, and New South Wales ties that to a separate chemical-training tier a TRA assessment does not touch. A third is assuming an employer can sponsor this code toward permanent residence; it cannot, under either name.

An honest read on this pathway

Greenkeeper reaches 190, 407, 491 and 494 only, no CSOL entry, so no 186 and no 482 under standard employer sponsorship, the same ceiling as Florist and Gardener (General). The name trap compounds the narrow list: someone researching under ANZSCO's current terminology may not even find that this pathway exists, let alone that it stops short of employer sponsorship. State nomination or a regional visa is the only realistic route to permanent residence here, and it depends on nominating the legacy code rather than either of the two 2022 successor occupations.

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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