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ATS resume keywords for Piping and Mechanical Construction

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Piping and Mechanical Construction 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.

  • piping
  • spool
  • fit up
  • weld joint
  • hydrotest
  • isometric
  • p&id
  • asme b31.3
  • asme b31.1
  • erection
  • fabrication
  • alignment
  • bolt torquing
  • flange
  • pipe support
  • pipe rack
  • punch list
  • mechanical completion
  • pre-commissioning
  • commissioning
  • wps
  • welder
  • inch dia
  • progress measurement
  • material take off
  • mto
  • hse
  • permit to work

The eight questions for Piping and Mechanical Construction

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 inch dia, tonnes or spools have you erected or fabricated, and on which project?
  2. 2.What was the largest project you worked on, by value, headcount or scope?
  3. 3.How many welders, fitters, riggers or subcontractor crew have you supervised?
  4. 4.How many hydrotests, punch items or mechanical completion packages have you closed?
  5. 5.Which codes, standards and drawings do you work to by name?
  6. 6.What progress rate, productivity or schedule result did you achieve?
  7. 7.How much material take off, MTO reconciliation or procurement have you handled?
  8. 8.How many safety hours, permits or incident free milestones did your site record?
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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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