Who this may suit
Facilities managers, building managers and shopping-centre managers reviewing an Australian migration assessment.
Key considerations
- VETASSESS assesses 149913 as a Group C occupation.
- The scope of contractor and service management is important.
- The STSOL entry does not create eligibility for every skilled or sponsored visa.
Explain the range of facilities you manage
VETASSESS describes responsibilities across the strategic and operational management of a facility. It includes building and shopping-centre management, but excludes roles focused predominantly on only one service or contractor relationship.
Prepare a map of the services for which you are accountable. For example, distinguish your authority over maintenance, security, cleaning and building-service providers from tasks merely referred to another manager. Explain how decisions are made and who can approve expenditure or changes.
A person who manages only a cleaning contract should not assume the Facilities Manager code applies. Similarly, property leasing, caretaker duties and construction-project management require separate occupation comparisons.
Review your study against Group C criteria
The current qualification threshold is an AQF Diploma-equivalent qualification or higher. VETASSESS provides different pathways according to study relevance and employment history; one year of work is not a universal requirement for every background.
Facilities Management, Asset Management and Building Services Management are identified relevant fields. A general MBA or project-management qualification is not treated as highly relevant merely because the role has management responsibilities.
The relevant-qualification pathway requires at least one year of suitable post-qualification employment in the last five years, working 20 hours or more per week. If your study is unrelated, review the alternative pathways and their longer experience requirements before applying.
Use the organisational chart to show authority
VETASSESS requires an organisational chart for this managerial occupation. Follow its instructions for showing your position, reporting relationships and the surrounding management structure.
An accurate chart helps explain an outsourced model where building services are delivered by contractors rather than employees. Identify the authority you actually exercise; do not portray supplier employees as direct reports if that is not the relationship.
For your own preparation, connect the chart to a short example of a facilities decision, such as coordinating a service change while keeping the premises operational. Explain your part in the decision and how the result was checked. This example is preparation guidance, not a new official submission requirement.
Check the visa-list position carefully
149913 is on the STSOL. State-nominated 190 and 491 may be considered if the state’s current criteria and all other visa requirements are met. It does not meet the MLTSSL requirement for a new 189 Points-tested or family-sponsored 491 application.
Facilities Manager is absent from the current CSOL instruments for 482 Core Skills and 186 Direct Entry. An employer’s willingness to sponsor does not settle which stream is available. Other routes, if relevant, require a separate review of their occupation and nomination rules.
Home Affairs uses ANZSCO 2022 for 482/186 and ANZSCO 2013 for other skilled subclasses. Check the exact code and stream before relying on a historic occupation table.
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Resolve evidence gaps before lodging
Prepare a chronology of your positions, hours and qualification completion dates. Record promotions from facilities administration or maintenance into management so the assessment does not assume the same responsibilities throughout.
Check the required employer and payment evidence. If an employer will not provide an organisational chart, VETASSESS describes an alternative declaration process; explain the genuine difficulty instead of inventing reporting relationships.
Keep building access details and security plans out of general enquiries. The purpose is to establish your role, not expose a facility’s vulnerabilities.
How we can help
Ausdirect can help clarify your management scope, review the evidence and assessment pathway, and test the visa options against the current lists.
Questions to consider
Is a general MBA automatically a relevant qualification?
No. VETASSESS distinguishes general management study from the occupation’s highly relevant fields. Qualification level and relevance are separate issues.
Can I be assessed if contractors deliver the services?
The guidance recognises outsourced services. The assessment still needs to establish your own management responsibilities and the breadth of the role.
Does Facilities Manager mean Property Manager?
Not automatically. A position mainly concerned with leasing rental properties is distinguished from managing the operation of a building and its facilities.
Your next step
Bring your study history, role timeline and an accurate reporting structure with a summary of the services you manage. General information checked on 17 October 2026.