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ATS resume keywords for Maintenance and Reliability Engineering

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Maintenance and Reliability Engineering 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.

  • preventive maintenance
  • predictive maintenance
  • breakdown maintenance
  • tpm
  • mttr
  • mtbf
  • cmms
  • sap pm
  • reliability
  • root cause analysis
  • spare parts
  • condition monitoring
  • vibration analysis
  • thermography
  • lubrication
  • shutdown maintenance
  • work order
  • maintenance planning
  • autonomous maintenance
  • kaizen
  • oee
  • downtime reduction
  • maintenance cost
  • utilities
  • compressor
  • hydraulics
  • pneumatics
  • plant maintenance

The eight questions for Maintenance and Reliability Engineering

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.What plant, equipment or asset base do you maintain, and how large is it?
  2. 2.What downtime, MTBF, MTTR or OEE improvement did you deliver, and by how much?
  3. 3.How many work orders, PM tasks or breakdowns do you handle in a month?
  4. 4.Which CMMS, condition monitoring and maintenance tools do you use daily?
  5. 5.What maintenance budget or spare parts inventory do you manage, and what did you save?
  6. 6.How many technicians, fitters, electricians or contractors do you supervise?
  7. 7.How many shutdowns, turnarounds or major overhauls have you planned or executed?
  8. 8.Which reliability programmes have you implemented by name?
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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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