Boat Builder and Repairer (ANZSCO 399111)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Boat Builder and Repairer 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.

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 Boat Builder and Repairer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

TRA does not publish a Boat Builder and Repairer page naming a specific evidence checklist. Which of its assessment programs applies depends on your passport, where you trained and the visa you are chasing, not the trade itself: the documentary Migration Skills Assessment is the default for most offshore applicants, the Offshore Skills Assessment Program applies only where your specific occupation-and-passport pairing sits on TRA's own OSAP list, and the employment-based Job Ready Program serves onshore VET graduates already working the trade in Australia. Boat Builder and Repairer sits alongside Shipwright as one of only two codes in this thirteen-occupation family carrying the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List rather than a shorter one.

Where these applications come unstuck

TRA will not decide for you whether Boat Builder and Repairer or the sibling code Shipwright better matches your actual work — its own FAQ states applicants must nominate the occupation for which they wish to be assessed themselves. Marine trades careers often mix hull construction, fitting-out and repair work, and evidence built around the wrong emphasis risks a mismatch between the code claimed and the duties an assessor can see in your references. The Migration Skills Assessment route most offshore applicants default to does not accept work experience as a substitute for a qualification, however long you have worked in boatyards.

An honest read on this pathway

Boat Builder and Repairer is one of only two codes in this family with genuinely open reach — the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List plus the Core Skills Occupation List gives it all eight visa subclasses, including the points-tested independent 189 and the post-study 485 that eleven of its twelve family members cannot reach. Whether a specific Australian Qualifications Framework certificate level applies to this code could not be confirmed here; TRA's own occupation-by-qualification reference document sits behind a separate download this research could not fetch. Expect the same documentary evidence burden as the rest of this family.

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 Boat Builder and Repairer 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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