Electronic Engineering Technician
Conducts tests of electronic systems, collects and analyses data, and assembles circuitry in support of Electronics Engineers and Engineering Technologists. Registration or licensing may be required.
ANZSCO 2013, the edition the department applies to the points tested visas (189, 190 and 491).
Specialisations within it
- Aircraft Electronics Technical Officer
- Communications Engineering Technical Officer
- Communications Engineering Technician
- Digital Controls Technical Officer
- Flight Surveyor
- Printed Circuit Board Designer
- Process Control Technician
- Telemetry Technician
Duties
Published for unit group 3124 Electronic Engineering Draftspersons and Technicians
- preparing drawings, plans and diagrams for electronic engineering work
- developing, constructing and testing electronic equipment and associated circuitry in accordance with technical manuals and instructions of Electronics Engineers and Engineering Technologists
- performing tests, graphing results, preparing charts and tabulations
- estimating material costs and quantities
- evaluating performance of equipment
- inspecting designs and finished products for compliance with specifications, drawings, contracts and regulations
- installing, testing, repairing and modifying electronic equipment
This is what the occupation is, not what a skills assessment requires. The assessing body applies its own criteria on top of this, and those criteria are not published here. Check them with the body itself.
Who assesses this occupation
Last confirmed against the department's list on 30 July 2026.
This occupation reads differently for the 186 and 482
Two editions of ANZSCO are current at once, and the department applies ANZSCO 2022 to the employer sponsored visas while everything above follows ANZSCO 2013.
The definition is identical in both editions, but the published duties are not:
- preparing drawings, modelling, plans and integration for electronic engineering and systems
- developing, constructing and testing electronic equipment and associated circuitry in accordance with technical requirements
- installing, testing, verification, repairing and modifying electronic equipment and recording and graphing results
- estimating material costs and quantities
- evaluating performance of equipment
- inspecting designs and finished products for compliance with specifications, drawings, contracts and regulations
If you are going for a 186 or a 482, this is the wording that governs you. Everything above governs the points tested routes.
Where Electronic Engineering Technician stands right now
There is no expression of interest queue for this occupation: it is not on the points tested lists, so the route runs through an employer instead. Vizard maps that route step by step.
See where you standWhere this comes from
Definition and duties: Australian Bureau of Statistics, ANZSCO
Assessing authorities and skilled lists: Department of Home Affairs skilled occupation list
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