ANZSCO 322311: Metal Fabricator

ANZSCO 322311: Metal Fabricator

Skill Level: 3 | Assessing Authority: TRA

If you are a Metal Fabricator wanting to migrate to Australia under a skilled migration program visa such as visa 482, 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 off and fabricates structural steel and other metal stock to make or repair metal products and structures such as boilers and pressure vessels.

Specialization:

• Boilermaker-Welder

Tasks Include:

• studying blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job requirements
• selecting, cleaning and preparing metal stock
• cutting marked-out metal sections and shapes using hand tools, flame cutting torches and metal cutting machines
• shaping and bending metal sections and pipes using hand and machine tools, and by heating and hammering
• aligning parts to be joined using hand tools and measuring instruments
• joining metal sections using various welding techniques, bolting and riveting
• examining welds for width of bead, penetration and precision
• finishing products by cleaning, polishing, filing and bathing in acidic solutions
• cleaning and smoothing welds by filing, chiselling and grinding

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 Metal Fabricator 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.