Fitter (General) skills assessment Australia
If you are a Fitter migrating to Australia on a skilled points-based visa, an ENS 186 employer sponsored visa or 482 employer sponsored visa (if you have a passport from one of these countries listed), you will need to complete the mandatory Fitter skills assessment to emigrate to Australia. The Fitter ANZSCO Code is 331212.
The Down Under Centre and Australian Trade Training College (ATTC) are proud to assess Fitters for Trades Recognition Australia (TRA). We work with Fitters emigrating to Australia to ensure that they are ready for their Fitter skills assessment required for migrating to Australia. At successful completion of the Fitterskills assessment, you will receive your full AQF III in Engineering – Mechanical, and your Skills Assessment letter required for migration. The AQF III is the relevant Australian qualification for employers hiring Fitters and the document that State regulators require when applying for Fitters jobs in Australia.
See our Frequently Asked Questions for Fitters emigrating to Australia.
If you would like to see if you are eligible for a Skilled Visa, use our Free Visa Points Calculator or complete our Enquiry Form and our Migration Consultants will be happy to advise on your options.
Specialisations:
• Diesel Fitter-Mechanic
• Fitter-Machinist
• Fitter-Mechanic
• Maintenance Fitter
• Mechanic
• Plant Mechanic
Find out more about our Agency Service for Fitters who want to migrate to Australia.
Process for Fitter (General) skills assessment for Australia
By completing the Fitter (General) skills assessment you obtain your mandatory document for migration and your Australian Certificate III in Engineering which many Australian employers will ask for prior to you commencing employment. The Fitter skills assessment process is in two stages.
1. Documentary Assessment for Fitter (General) skills assessment Australia $1,120
This part of the Fitter skills assessment is considered the most difficult part by most Fitters migrating to Australia.
- If you hold trade related qualifications, you’ll be asked to prove you have a minimum of 3 years’ full-time paid work experience as a Fitter.
- If you don’t have trade related qualifications, you’ll be asked to prove you have a minimum of 5 years’ full-time paid work experience as a Fitter.
You will also need to prove that you have worked as a Fitter for a minimum of 12 months out of the last 36 months for industry currency. To prove work experience required for the Australian Fitter skills assessment, you will need to provide pay and tax evidence, statements of service, photos, videos and more.
Down Under Centre Agency Service £600 + VAT
It is very important to remember that most of your evidence gathering for your Fitter skills assessment is also required for your skilled points-based or employer sponsored visa. The Down Under Centre can provide you with an Agency Service £600 + VAT to assist you with the gathering of your documentation for your Fitter skills assessment. We can also advise how many years of work experience will be required to give you maximum points for your visa to migrate to Australia as a Fitter. This stage is considered to be the most difficult stage of your visa application.
As part of our Agency Service, we give you access to your bespoke Fitter Skills Assessment Portal that will advise exactly what photos, videos, pay/tax evidence to gather, what your CV needs to focus on, employer references and more. You’ll be assigned a Client Manager and one of our Assessors, who can answer questions and advise on the documents you have supplied via the Skills Assessment Portal. We do this so you can obtain a successful skills assessment as a Fitter.
Our Agency Service also includes;
- Access to our private Facebook group, giving you access to our staff and other clients that are in the process or have already made the move to Australia. To have like-minded people who have either achieved their goal of migration or currently in the process of migrating, answering questions and offering tips is a real asset. Our DUC family is an amazing community that offers so much support.
- 10% off the PTE Academic English Test (for clients in the UK) and Scored Practice Tests.
- Free access to set up your DUC Employment Hub profile.
- Should you use the DUC to process and lodge your visa application, you’ll also be offered a free relocation call with a DUC Relocation Agent, who can advise of many topics on the area/State of Australia you are looking to move to and save you money on the move.
Please call our UK office on +44 (0)20 3376 1555 or our Australia office on +61 (0)3 9123 3260 to enquire about our Agency Service and how it can specifically help you.
2. Technical Interview for Fitter (General) skills assessment Australia $2,000
The final part of your skills assessment as a Fitter (General) is an online technical interview.
We will organise an Australian qualified Fitter who is also an Australian qualified Trainer and Assessor in fitting to discuss your stage two application with you and your everyday working life as a Fitter. This is why it’s very important that you have provided the assessing body and their assessor with a complete application.
Technical Interviews are held at our UK offices in Leatherhead and Dumbarton. They are also hosted in Australia (QLD, VIC, NSW and WA), India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, South Africa, UAE and Fiji.
Please note that if the Assessor feels that you do not have the necessary skills to work in Australia as a qualified Fitter, they will ask you to provide further information which will be at your cost. The Down Under Centre have never had a client that has required a site visit as yet as we work closely with them to ensure that this does not need to happen. The assessors understand that you may be nervous, and they will discuss your application with you in a calm manner in a relaxed environment and do all they can to assist you and put you at ease.
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Fitters FAQs
Fitters emigrating to Australia FAQs
It is not mandatory to have a qualification for the Fitter skills assessment for Australian migration. You are required to either hold your completed apprenticeship papers as a Fitter. Please note these qualifications could fall under many engineering qualifications (mechanical engineering for example) and 3 years of full-time paid work experience pre or post qualification.
So, if you are from the UK and hold an NVQ3 as a Fitter, you would only require the 3 years.
If you don’t have an NVQ3, you are required to have a minimum of 5 years full-time paid work experience as a Fitter. It is common for clients to be assessed without holding any formal training or qualification so we use your 5 years of paid work experience as proof.
The cost of the Fitter skills assessment is dictated by TRA (Trades Recognition Australia). You pay them directly and they have chosen RTOs (Registered Training Organisations) that deliver the Fitter (General) skills assessment for Australian migration.
Documentary Assessment cost is $1120
Technical Interview cost is $2000.
A skills assessment is required so you, the migrant, can apply for a visa to Australia. This is the way Australian Immigration can gauge if you are in fact a Fitter under the Australian guidelines.
Many people want to move to Australia as a Fitter and without a skills assessment delivered by an approved assessing body, Australian immigration have no way in checking a migrant has the necessary skills. To emigrate to Australia as a mechanical Fitter you will need to complete the Fitter (General) skills assessment for a skilled visa.
The Down Under Centre work with Australian Trade Training College (ATTC), an approved TRA assessing body, to deliver the Carpenter skills assessment for Australia. You can contact our office in the UK on +44 (0)203 376 1555 or contact our office in Australia on +61 (0)3 9123 3260.
The Down Under Centre are very proud to be working with ATTC – this is what we do! We have over a decade of experience working with Fitters during the skills assessment process. We have developed software to assist with the process, and have the staff and assessors to hold your hand throughout the Fitter skills assessment process.
You also get the opportunity to speak with other Fitters who have gone through the Fitter skills assessment process via our exclusive Facebook Group. We can save you money on your move and assist with finding Australia fitter employers via the DUC Employment Hub.
Migrating to Australia as a Fitter has its challenges and you, the migrant, will have plenty of questions. We know the answers and are always available to answer any of your questions.
Check out our free monthly migration webinars, and bespoke Podcasts to hear more from Fitters that have completed the Australian skills assessment and now are living in Australia.
Your TRA Fitter skills assessment is valid for 3 years from the date the skill assessment was issued.
This means you need to have your invitation to apply before the 3 years is up. Your Australian Certificate III in Engineering (Fitter General) has no expiry date.
Getting a job as a Fitter in Australia can be done from your country of origin. There is a lot of work in Australia for mechanical Fitters. Fitters can work doing repair and maintenance of production machinery.
Australia is huge in the mining areas. We have a need for Fitters who have skills working on large mining machinery. Lots of employers are on the lookout for Fitters with manufacture and fit and replacement skills, maintaining production line equipment, hydraulics, pumps, valves, engines, earthmoving equipment. There are jobs for Fitters in Australia to operate CNC machines, jobs in machining, drilling, milling and hand making fitting components.
Upon completion of your Australian Fitter skills assessment, you will receive your Australian Certificate III in Engineering – Mechanical, which is required to obtain the relevant registration and licenses you need for whichever state of Australia you migrate to.
The Down Under Centre works with many Australian employers who want English speaking, skilled migrants. Employers hire Fitters moving to Australia via our DUC Employment Hub.
Our Employment Team in Australia can also help Fitters with employment opportunities.
At successful completion of your Australian Fitter skills assessment you will receive your TRA skills assessment required for a skilled visa to Australia and you will also receive your Australian Certificate III in Engineering.
If you are a Fitter looking to migrate to Australia, you need to be between 18 and 45 years old. However at age 18, Fitters will not have yet achieved the necessary qualifications and experience to prove their competence. Fitters emigrating to Australia between the ages of 25-32 years old generate the maximum points for age towards their visa application.
Complete our free visa points calculator to confirm your points. Also if you are under 31 years old you can look into the Working Holiday Visa.
Yes, we can assist Fitters outside of the UK, migrating to Australia. First, complete our free visa points calculator. We’ll contact you to determine your eligibility for migrating to Australia as a Fitter and explain the Australian visa process.
We have clients all over the world and the tools to get you to Australia as a Fitter.
With a passport from the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA or New Zealand, you automatically add 5 points to your partner’s visa application for Australia.
If you completed the Fitter skills assessment for Australia (and are under 45 years of age) this may add 10 points. Not only do you get extra points for an Australian skilled visa, you will arrive in Australia with your Australian Certificate III in Engineering (Fitter General). This is huge as employers want you to hold the necessary qualification so they can insure you, also means they know you have the Australian standards if any injuries take place while completing Fitter (General) jobs.
Yes, The Down Under Centre Employment Hub is here to help!
We are not a recruitment agency, we are employment specialists, servicing migrants who are actively looking to relocate to Australia as well as employers who are seeking talent from overseas.
With extensive experience in the Australian labor market, our team understands the needs of employers and empathises with the unique challenges migrants and their families face during the relocation process.
We are dedicated to finding the right candidates for your business. Using our exclusive candidate database, we can match you with visa-ready Fitters and skilled migrants seeking employer sponsorship.
Click here to contact our Employment Team and start your hiring journey today.
If your country of passport is listed below, this means it is mandatory for you to obtain the Carpentry skills assessment for a Subclass 482 visa application.
- Persons who hold a passport issued by Brazil, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Macau, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam or Zimbabwe
https://www.downundercentre.com/mandatory-skill-assessment-subclass-482-visa
The best way to prepare for your Fitter skills assessment Technical Interview is to view the Self-Assessment Questionnaire and Applicant Kit you completed in your Documentary Assessment stage. On your DUC Skills Assessment Portal, we have a tips section on how to pass the Fitter Technical Interview, how to prepare and how the Technical Interview works.
Fitters do usually need to complete the English test when emigrating to Australia, to generate points towards the visa application.
Applying for a skills assessment as a Fitter to migrate to Australia does not necessarily require a qualification; this is dependent upon the country of your passport.
The Down Under Centre has access to Australia’s Country Education Profiles and can confirm if your qualifications will be recognised so you can complete your Fitter skills assessment and obtain a visa to work in Australia as a Fitter.
Fitter (General) duties in Australia
There is a demand for Fitters in Australia. Many Fitters find themselves working in the mines or filling the holes in cities where mechanical engineers have left to work on mine sites across Australia. Fitters and other engineers in Australia need to complete a four year apprenticeship to obtain their certificate III in Engineering (Fitter General 323211).
Fitters in Australia complete tasks in a commercial or industrial work place. Fitters may be referred to as Mechanical Engineers and work on machinery and manufacture parts using a large range of machines and tools. An Australian Fitter would carry out maintenance and repairs on production machinery and equipment and manufacture and fit or replace heavy components. Fitters may be employed to work on the production of line equipment, pumps, hydraulic equipment, generators and engines, earthmoving equipment and more.
Fitters looking to migrate to Australia would need to be able to complete the following tasks:
Examine detailed drawings or specifications to find out job, material and equipment requirements. Operate CNC machines. Drilling. Milling. Machining. Set up and adjust metalworking machines and equipment. Hand make fitting components. Operate machines to produce parts or tools by turning, boring, milling, planning, shaping, slotting, grinding or drilling metal stock or components. Fit and assemble metal parts, tools or sub-assemblies. Cut, thread, bend and install hydraulic and pneumatic pipes and lines. Weld. Dismantle, assemble and repair or replace defective parts. Set up and/or operate hand and machine tools, welding equipment or Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines. Check quality and accuracy of finished parts, tools or sub-assemblies. Form metal stock and castings to fine tolerances using machining tools to press, cut, grind, plane, bore and drill metal.
During your Fitter skills assessment for Australia you will be required to prove that you can carry out many of the above tasks through your Documentary Assessment and your Technical interview.
Fitter jobs in Australia
Engineers in Australia get paid well. The demand for Fitters to work in Australia has risen over the years. The Down Under Centre works with many recruitment companies and employers all over Australia who hire Fitters via our DUC Employment Hub. It is a tool that connects migrants to employers in Australia as well as providing you with a relocation hub to make your journey to Australia smoother.
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