Post job

Tower technician resume examples from 2026

Zippi

Land interviews using Zippia's AI-powered resume builder.

Updated March 26, 2025
6 min read
Resume example

All resume examples

How to write a tower technician 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 tower technician-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 tower technician position.

Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.

Zippi waving

List the right project manager skills

Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. 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.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical tower technician skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some tower technician interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a tower technician resume:

  • OSHA
  • CPR
  • RF
  • Hand Tools
  • Safety Procedures
  • PIM
  • Field Training
  • Safety Hazards
  • Construction Equipment
  • CAD
  • Safety Equipment
  • Ladders
  • Test Equipment
  • Broadband
  • Work Ethic
  • Fall Protection
  • Telecommunication
  • Anritsu
  • Climb Towers
  • Transmission Lines
  • Hoisting
  • Azimuth
  • Site Audits
  • JSA
  • Antenna Installation
  • BTS
  • Coax Cables
  • TMA
  • UMTS
  • Comtrain

Zippia’s AI can customize your resume for you.

Zippi waving

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 tower technician.

How to write tower technician experience bullet points

Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.

Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.

Here are effective examples from tower technician resumes:

Work history example #1

Carpenter/Painter

Tradesmen International

  • Performed finishing/taping work and installing windows on occasion.
  • Practiced safety measures and comply with OSHA standards.
  • Provided finish carpentry work, including walls, trim, doorknobs, safety rails, and hardware
  • assisted construction site workers in erecting structures and demolition.
  • Ensured all projects and sub-contractors were OSHA compliant.

Work history example #2

Tower Technician

Somers Building Maintenance

  • Installed, maintained and/or replaced electrical or electronic components in a variety of telecommunication systems.
  • Performed wave-form analysis using cables, antenna and calibration technology.
  • Conducted Troubleshooting and repairs on AT&T LTE, GSM, and UMTS Technologies.
  • Installed various radios, antennas, and fiber optics in order to run a cell tower site at full capacity.
  • Involved with the broad-scale AT&T UMTS 3G upgrade in the Tennessee and Georgia markets.

Work history example #3

Tower Technician

WesTower Communications

  • Facilitated aerial modifications and installations for the Atlanta sector Cingular Wireless UMTS build-out.
  • Certified in CPR, High End Rescue.
  • Completed Tower climbing safety and tower rescue through COMTRAIN.
  • Disassembled antennas, located malfunctions, repaired and replaced defective equipment.
  • Performed Anritsu testing and fiber tests on hybrids.

Work history example #4

Cell Tower Climber

United States Marine

  • Demonstrated knowledge of interface device modems, multiplexer, patch panels, and T-1 carrier line path.
  • Required secret clearance to enter facility and given trust with confidential information.
  • Worked with 850/1900 frequency PIM gear numerous times and can fully operate.
  • Maintained RNC, BTS cell site deployment worksheets and generate detailed reports on daily basis for upper management.
  • Finished OSHA10 (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Training.

Zippia’s AI can customize your resume for you.

Zippi waving

Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

Associate's Degree in general studies

American University, Washington, DC

2008 - 2010

Highlight your tower technician certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

Here are some of the best certifications to have on tower technician resumes:

  1. Wind Turbine Technician Certification
  2. Tower Technician Certification
  3. EPA Amusement Operators Safety Certification (EPA)
  4. Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
  5. Passive Intermodulation Testing (PIM)
  6. Electrical Technician Certification
  7. Line and Antenna Sweeping (LAS)

Browse installation, maintenance and repair jobs