ANZSCO 322211: Sheetmetal Trades Worker

ANZSCO 322211: Sheetmetal Trades Worker

Skill Level: 3 | Assessing Authority: TRA

If you are a sheetmetal trades worker wanting to migrate to Australia under a skilled migration program visa such as visa 491, visa 190, or visa 494, you must complete the compulsory skill assessment. This is one of the most important requirements for your visa application.

Job description

Marks out, shapes, forms and joins sheetmetal and other materials to make products and components.

Specialization:

• Sheetmetal Fabricator

Tasks Include:

• studying blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job, material and equipment requirements
• selecting metal stock, such as stainless steel, galvanised iron, mild steel, aluminium and copper, and checking sizes, gauges and other dimensions of metal stock against specifications
• marking out metal stock with reference points and lines, using templates, gauges and other measuring instruments
• cutting metal stock along guidelines using hand and power shears, computerised laser and plasma cutters, guillotines and drills
• shaping and forming cut metal stock into products using folding and bending machines, rollers, presses and hammers
• fitting and assembling components into final products by welding, riveting, soldering, brazing and otherwise joining
• finishing products by polishing, filing, sanding and cleaning assembled products
• may repair damaged sheetmetal products and components
• may specialise in fabrication, or on-site assembly and installation, of sheetmetal products
• may produce aircraft sheetmetal components requiring advanced drawing and calculating skills
• may specialise in decorative copperwork

Skills Assessment Pathway

A skills assessment determines if you have the skills and experience necessary to work in Australia at the required level for your occupation. There are two skills assessment pathways for this occupation either Pathway 1 or Pathway 2 depends on whether you have or don’t have an accepted Australian qualification.

Pathway 1: You don’t have an Australian qualification.

As part of the skill assessment application process, you must have:

• 5 years’ employment experience with no formal training OR
• 3 years’ employment experience with relevant formal training. Formal training is training that aligns with the national training standards in your country of training.
• At least 12 months working full time within the last 3 years.
• Your evidence must show you have worked in your occupation and must be able to verify.

Pathway 2 – You do have an Australian qualification.

As part of the skill assessment application process, you must have:

• An Australian qualification including a Statement of Results.
• 3 years’ employment experience.
• At least 12 months working full time within the last 3 years.
• Your evidence must show you have worked in your occupation and must be able to verify.

Skill Assessment Outcome

If you successfully completed skill assessment with positive outcome you will receive the following:

• an Australian Certificate III in Engineering – Fabrication Trade and
• a Statement of Results
• a migration outcome letter if the assessment is to support your visa application.

Skill Assessment Agency Services

Most of the evidence documentation required for your sheetmetal trades worker skills assessment is also required for your visa application. Ozlinks Education is an agency that can assist you in understanding and meeting the skill assessment criteria, giving you the best chance of a positive result. Click here to learn more about how our agency service can assist you.