Materials Engineer ANZSCO 233112

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Examples are for reference only: never submit any part of them as your own work.

ANZSCO 233112 or OSCA 243133?

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released OSCA in December 2024 to replace ANZSCO for statistics. The migration system has not switched yet. The Department of Home Affairs still lists skilled occupations by ANZSCO code: the 2013 version for points-tested visas such as the 189, 190 and 491, and the 2022 version for the 482 and 186 employer-sponsored visas.

For your skills assessment and visa application, use ANZSCO 233112. In OSCA it sits in unit group 2431 Chemical and Materials Engineering Professionals. OSCA lists physical metallurgists and welding engineers under Materials Engineer.

Visa Options for Materials Engineers

Materials Engineer (233112) is on the MLTSSL and the Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL), subject to each visa’s own requirements:

Lists change, so check the Home Affairs skilled occupation list before you lodge.

Engineers Australia Skills Assessment

If your materials engineering degree is not accredited in Australia or covered by the Washington Accord, Engineers Australia assesses you through a Competency Demonstration Report (CDR):

• Three career episodes, each about your own engineering work, with numbered paragraphs
• A summary statement mapping all 16 elements of competency to paragraphs in your episodes
• A CPD statement listing your continuing professional development

The CDR assessment fee is AU$1,034 including GST. Standard applications wait around 15 weeks to be assigned to an assessor; fast track (an extra AU$396) assigns your application within 20 business days.

The English scores above are the minimum in each component for tests taken on or after 7 August 2025. Cambridge C1 Advanced, LanguageCert Academic, Michigan English Test and CELPIP General are also accepted. You are usually exempt with a UK, US, Canadian, New Zealand or Irish passport, or after two years of study in Australia.

What a Strong Materials Engineer CDR Shows

Assessors want to see your own engineering judgement, not your team’s work or your job description. Strong materials career episodes include:

• Engineering you did yourself: material selection, failure analysis, testing and characterisation, with your tools (for example SEM, XRD or tensile testing)
• The standards you applied, named specifically (for example ASTM or ISO standards)
• A real problem you solved, such as corrosion, cracking or a failed part, and how you checked your solution
• Project work: process improvement, quality control and coordination with production and suppliers

Common reasons materials CDRs fail: writing “we” instead of “I”, routine testing with no engineering analysis, copying a job description, and summary statements that point to the wrong paragraphs.

Which Chemical or Materials Code Fits You?

Choose the occupation that matches what you actually do most of the time; your career episodes must support it. Under ANZSCO, extractive metallurgy falls under Metallurgist 234912, which VETASSESS assesses, not Engineers Australia.