OSCA 2024 · 331936 · Skill level 3
Sheetmetal Worker: OSCA 331936
ABS OSCA 2024 v1.0 · visa lists checked 21 October 2026
Sheetmetal Worker is OSCA 2024 code 331936. It corresponds to ANZSCO 322211 Sheetmetal Worker, which is on the CSOL and MLTSSL. Visa lists still use the ANZSCO code.
ANZSCO equivalent
ANZSCO code for OSCA 331936
Skilled visa lists still use ANZSCO codes, so this is the code that decides your visa options.
ANZSCO 322211
Sheetmetal Worker
On the Core Skills Occupation List, Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List.
Visas for ANZSCO 322211
The job
What a sheetmetal worker does
Marks out, shapes, forms and joins sheetmetal and other materials to make products and components.
Skill level 3: Certificate IV, or Certificate III with at least 2 years of on-the-job training, or 3 years of relevant experience
Also known as
- Sheetmetal Fabricator
Main tasks
Main tasks
- Studies blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job, material and equipment requirements
- Selects metal stock such as stainless steel, galvanised iron, mild steel, aluminium and copper, and checks sizes, gauges and other dimensions of metal stock against specifications
- Marks out metal stock with reference points and lines, using templates, gauges and other measuring instruments
- Cuts metal stock along guidelines using hand and power shears, computerised laser and plasma cutters, guillotines and drills
- Shapes and forms cut metal stock into products using folding and bending machines, rollers, presses and hammers
- Fits and assembles components into final products by welding, riveting, soldering, brazing and otherwise joining
- Finishes products by polishing, filing, sanding and cleaning assembled products
- May specialise in fabrication, or on-site assembly and installation of sheetmetal products
- May produce aircraft sheetmetal components
Unit group 3319
Other occupations in Other Fabrication Engineering Trades Workers
Questions
OSCA 331936: common questions
What is the OSCA code for sheetmetal worker?
What is the ANZSCO code for OSCA 331936?
Is Sheetmetal Worker on Australia's skilled occupation lists?
Does Home Affairs use OSCA codes for visas?
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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA 2024 v1.0 (CC BY 4.0); Department of Home Affairs, checked 21 October 2026. General information only, not immigration advice.
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