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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Manufacturing & Production

These are the 22 terms our scorer checks a Manufacturing & Production 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.

  • production planning
  • ppc
  • oee
  • cycle time
  • downtime
  • kaizen
  • 5s
  • lean
  • six sigma
  • tpm
  • sap pp
  • bom
  • shop floor
  • quality control
  • scrap
  • yield
  • line balancing
  • preventive maintenance
  • iso 9001
  • capacity planning
  • material planning
  • throughput

The eight questions for Manufacturing & Production

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 is your line or plant output per shift or per month?
  2. 2.What is your OEE, and what was it before you took the line?
  3. 3.How many operators and shifts do you run?
  4. 4.How much downtime do you lose in a month, and how much have you recovered?
  5. 5.What is your scrap or rejection rate, and where did it start?
  6. 6.Which improvement projects have you run, and what did each save?
  7. 7.Which systems do you plan and report in?
  8. 8.What is the largest changeover or new line you have commissioned?
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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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