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How to write a welder-assembler resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in welder-assembler-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.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some welder-assembler interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
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:
- You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
- Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
- Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a welder-assembler resume:
- MIG
- Blueprint Specifications
- Aluminum
- Stainless Steel
- Safety Equipment
- Tig Welding
- Arc Welding
- Assembly Line
- TIG
- Tack
- GMAW
- Jigs
- GTAW
- Plasma Arc
- Torches
- Overhead Cranes
- Flux Core
- Spot Welding
- AWS
- Tape Measure
- Carbon Steel
- SMAW
- Mild Steel
- Drill Press
- FCAW
- CNC
- Brazing
- Engineering Drawings
- Air Tools
- Flame Cutting
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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 welder-assembler.
How to write welder-assembler 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 examples from great welder-assembler resumes:
Work history example #1
Welder-Assembler
Trinity Industries
- Capped off tank cars, built box and gondola cars, laid aluminum decking inside box cars.
- Used FCAW welding equipment to join, surface, fabricate and repair parts of metal.
- Passed welding requirements: 1G & 2G Flux core, MIG/TIG, Stick, stainless steel using multiple positions.
- Performed layouts and installed parts/assemblies according specifications with power tools.
- Performed MIG welding procedures to join rolled sheet metal.
Work history example #2
Welder
Chevron
- Welded pipe in a oil refinery.
- used Sub-Arc weld & flux core to fit & weld ASME Pressure Vessels above ground & under ground storage tanks.
- Worked from blueprints, layout and fitting and performed MIG, TIG and Stick welding of mild and stainless steel.
- Customized metal fabrication, TIG, MIG, SMAW, oxy acetylene/plasma
- Certified 1" to unlimited 6G with company-Stick (SMAW) various sized pipe using the 6010 and 7018 electrodes.
Work history example #3
Roller Seam Welder
John A. Dalsin & Son
- Rolled silverware.Washed dishes by operating a dishwashing machine.Assisted with cold prep.Disposed of trash.
- Washed, polished, and rolled 12 bins of silverware.
- Inspected silverware for cleanliness Rolled and prepared silverware for servers
- Pulled engines, transmissions, track and rollers, blades, booms, dippers, and buckets.
- Passed 3G FCAW and Sub-Arc Production Tests on Carbon and Stainless up to 1.
Work history example #4
Welder-Assembler
John J Kirlin
- Certified 6G 2" MIG/Flux carbon and 6G 2" MIG SS.
- Assisted welders by handing them tools, putting up metal and channel.
- Inspected material and layouts according to specifications.
- Certified in 6G position 2'' schedule 80 pipe tig welded root, 7018 hot pass and cap.
- Completed structural fabrications using FCAW method.
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Add an education section to your resume
Here is the best way to format your education section:
- Display your highest degree first.
- If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you 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 for resumes:
Bachelor's Degree in precision metal working
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
2012 - 2015
Some College Courses in precision metal working
Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN
2005 - 2005
Highlight your welder-assembler 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 welder-assembler resume:
- Certified Welding Engineer
- EPA Amusement Operators Safety Certification (EPA)