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ATS resume keywords for Railway and Rolling Stock

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a Railway and Rolling Stock 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.

  • rolling stock
  • railway
  • locomotive
  • wagon
  • coach
  • bogie
  • air brake
  • traction motor
  • overhaul
  • depot
  • loco shed
  • maintenance schedule
  • fleet availability
  • rams
  • reliability
  • root cause analysis
  • ecm
  • qms
  • oem
  • wheel lathe
  • derailment
  • signalling
  • metro
  • emu
  • lhb
  • icf
  • heavy haul
  • track
  • safety case
  • sap pm
  • failure analysis
  • warranty

The eight questions for Railway and Rolling Stock

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 locomotives, coaches or wagons are you responsible for?
  2. 2.What failure, availability or backlog figure did you improve, and by how much?
  3. 3.How many schedules, overhauls or inspections does your team complete in a month?
  4. 4.How many staff or engineers do you lead?
  5. 5.Which fleet types and systems do you know best, such as bogies, brakes or traction?
  6. 6.Which quality, safety or maintenance systems do you work under?
  7. 7.Which OEMs, suppliers or contractors do you manage, and on what?
  8. 8.What improvement, tool or fixture have you introduced, 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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