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ATS resume keywords for Instrumentation, Control and Automation

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Instrumentation, Control and Automation resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • instrumentation
  • plc
  • scada
  • dcs
  • hmi
  • loop checking
  • calibration
  • field instruments
  • transmitter
  • control valve
  • p&id
  • loop diagram
  • siemens
  • allen bradley
  • rockwell
  • ladder logic
  • profibus
  • modbus
  • commissioning
  • fat
  • sat
  • safety plc
  • sil
  • interlock
  • control narrative
  • io list
  • instrument index
  • hazardous area

The eight questions for Instrumentation, Control and Automation

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many loops, I/O points or field instruments have you handled on your largest project?
  2. 2.Which PLC, DCS and SCADA platforms do you work on daily?
  3. 3.Which projects or plants have you commissioned, and at what scale?
  4. 4.What downtime, trips or false alarms did you reduce, and by how much?
  5. 5.How many calibrations, loop checks or preventive maintenance tasks do you complete a month?
  6. 6.Which standards, safety systems or protocols do you work with by name?
  7. 7.How many technicians, contractors or junior engineers do you supervise?
  8. 8.What automation or upgrade project did you deliver, and what did it save?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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