Facility engineer resume examples for 2025
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How to write a facility engineer resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in facility engineer-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the facility engineer position.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is an easy way to let recruiters know you have the skills to do the job. Just as importantly, it can help your resume not get filtered out by hiring software. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical facility engineer skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a facility engineer resume:
- HVAC
- Plumbing
- Project Management
- Ladders
- Autocad
- Boilers
- Customer Service
- Control Systems
- OSHA
- Fire Protection
- CMMS
- CAD
- Electrical Systems
- Mechanical Systems
- Facilities Engineering
- Perform Routine Maintenance
- Chillers
- General Maintenance
- NFPA
- Routine Maintenance
- Cost Estimates
- Technical Support
- Capital Projects
- Construction Projects
- Building Maintenance
- Engineering Support
- Equipment Installation
- Electrical Equipment
- Facility Maintenance
- Engineering Design
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the facility engineer.
How to write facility engineer experience bullet points
Your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. Instead, it is your chance to show your accomplishments and show why you're good at what you do.
- Use the What, How, and Why format. Answering these questions turns a bland job description into an effective showcase of your abilities.
- What were your responsibilities or goals?
- How did you accomplish them?
- Why were your results important? (How did it impact your company? Can you quantify the results in numbers? )
Here are examples from great facility engineer resumes:
Work history example #1
Facility Engineer
Hilton Worldwide Holdings
- Planned and developed procedures to minimize operational cost and improve utilization of material, equipment and labor.
- Performed a variety of repair and maintenance tasks including: carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, HVAC and masonry.
- Provided daily Maintenance for entire Facility.
- Ensured that all building, OSHA, safety, and fire codes were compliant.
- Ensured work was performed in accordance with company quality procedures and engineering standards.
Work history example #2
Manufacturing Engineering Internship
General Electric
- Completed Six Sigma training and completed Greenbelt training project.
- Produced work instructions, procedures and design verification documents.
- Performed failure analysis on motors to improve reliability and safety.
- Improved $150K+ YOY productivity implementing multi Six Sigma projects.
- Designed Kanban carts for Buckets (airfoil components) that reduced WIP inventory and controlled material flow.
Work history example #3
Facility Engineer
General Electric
- Exercised supervisory authority over on-site maintenance contractors and multiple outside contractors on each project.
- Interfaced directly with customers, project facilitators, and safety personnel to determine project objectives.
- Provided direction to test technicians regarding equipment fabrication and test execution.
- Worked on automated overhead cranes project for Alcoa Aluminum which used optical modems to send/receive positioning information.
- Improved compliance by retraining personnel to use CMMS for maintenance and compliance tasks.
Work history example #4
Facility Engineer
Boeing
- Led enterprise-wide team on consolidation of enterprise refrigerant procedures, define common tool, coordinate with enterprise oversight team.
- Published post-flight test data, test summaries and FAA certification reports In order to expand the envelope for 787-8.
- Implemented critical infrastructure operational procedures and planned maintenance program for a manufacturing and test facility.
- Prepared detail certification documentation for the FAA.
- Designed application tests obeying general testing guidelines using Python.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries from facility engineer resumes:
Master's Degree in mechanical engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
2011 - 2012
Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering
DeVry University, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
2002 - 2005
Highlight your facility engineer certifications on your resume
Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.
Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your facility engineer resume:
- Engineer In Training Certification (EIT)
- OSHA Safety Certificate
- Certified Facility Manager (CFM)
- Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Professional
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Energy Manager (CEM)
- Program Management Professional (PgMP)
- Certified Chemical Engineer (CCE)
- Air Conditioning Service Certification
- Petroleum Engineering Certification (PEC)