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ATS resume keywords for Quality Engineering (Manufacturing)

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Quality Engineering (Manufacturing) 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.

  • quality engineering
  • ppap
  • apqp
  • fmea
  • control plan
  • spc
  • msa
  • 8d
  • capa
  • root cause analysis
  • iso 9001
  • iatf 16949
  • customer complaint
  • ppm
  • rejection
  • rework
  • incoming inspection
  • in process inspection
  • final inspection
  • cmm
  • gauge
  • calibration
  • supplier quality
  • audit
  • process audit
  • layered audit
  • first pass yield
  • cost of poor quality

The eight questions for Quality Engineering (Manufacturing)

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 customer PPM, rejection rate or first pass yield do you hold, and where did it start?
  2. 2.How many parts, SKUs or product lines does your quality remit cover?
  3. 3.Which quality systems and standards do you work under by name?
  4. 4.How many PPAPs, APQP launches or FMEAs have you completed?
  5. 5.How many customer complaints, 8Ds or CAPAs do you close in a year?
  6. 6.Which inspection equipment and tools do you use daily?
  7. 7.How many suppliers do you audit or develop, and what did their quality do?
  8. 8.What cost of poor quality, rework or scrap did you reduce, and by how much?
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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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