Television Equipment Operator (ANZSCO 399517)

On the Regional 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 Television Equipment Operator 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.

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 Television Equipment Operator comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Television Equipment Operator sits on the Regional Occupation List alone, reaching only the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (494) visa, in the Performing Arts Technicians unit group at Skill Level 3. The broader unit group's published tasks include operating microwave equipment to transmit video information to transmitter sites and receiving video signals from remote locations, and maintaining and repairing radio and television transmitters and associated equipment — production-support work adjacent to, but distinct from, Broadcast Transmitter Operator's console-operating role. TRA runs no dedicated page for this occupation; assessment defaults to the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code sits in the same narrow-ceiling group as Broadcast Transmitter Operator, Musical Instrument Maker or Repairer and Gallery or Museum Technician — Regional Occupation List membership only, with no employer-sponsorship route under any circumstance. Confusing this occupation with the closely related Broadcast Transmitter Operator code is a real risk given the overlapping equipment-operation tasks published under the same unit group; the two are separate ANZSCO codes with separate, though here identical, visa reach, and TRA states plainly it cannot advise which occupation to nominate.

An honest read on this pathway

Television Equipment Operator reaches only the 494 regional-sponsored visa — no 186, 482, 189, 190, 407 or 485 under any circumstance, the same single-visa ceiling as three other codes in this family. No real forum discussion specific to this occupation's TRA assessment or visa path was found from britishexpats or any other reachable source despite a targeted search, so applicant experience for this specific code remains unsourced from this research.

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