How to write a Mechanical CV

The conventions below are the ones this field actually uses. They are what the builder applies when you pick Mechanical / Civil / Electrical, and what the rating checks a finished CV against.

What it must contain

Leave any of these out and the CV reads as incomplete to someone who hires in this field:

Work experience — Project value, tolerances, standards followed, safety record, team size.
Education
Technical Skills

The order to put them in

Order is not cosmetic. What sits at the top is what gets read before someone decides whether to keep reading.

Professional summary
Technical Skills
Work experience
Key Projects
Education
Licences & registrations
Certifications
Achievements
Languages

Section by section

Licences & registrations — Chartered status or professional engineer registration, where you hold it.

What to put numbers on

The single most common reason a CV in this field reads as weak is that nothing in it is measured. These are the figures that mean something here:

project value · tonnage · downtime · yield · defect rate · team size

Verbs that carry weight

Openers like “responsible for” and “worked on” describe a job description rather than a person. In this field these do the work instead:

Designed · Commissioned · Inspected · Optimised · Supervised · Tested · Reduced

Length

1 to 2 pages is normal for this field.

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Free, no account, and nothing is uploaded — the builder runs in your browser and the CV never leaves it.

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