10 Years Experience Mechanical Engineer Resume
February 29, 2024With 10 years of experience as a mechanical engineer, your resume should be solid and filled with experience.
You’ll need solid keywords and results/accomplishments pertaining to your long 10 years of industry experience.
If you don’t have them?
You’re not going to find a well paying mechanical engineering job.
As a mechanical engineer with 10 years of experience, you should be making at least $120K per year in base salary alone.
We’ll be going over specific keywords, skillsets, and metrics to include in your resume for engineering companies.
As an engineer working 10+ years, at this point, you should have solid skills, results, and accomplishments.
We’ve helped hundreds of clients land jobs using our clear keyword, metric, and skills based approach below.
Read more to learn how to frame your experiences and include keywords in your resume.
Use our template to get started.
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What Experienced Mechanical Engineers Do
As a mechanical engineer gets more experience, they will be responsible for higher level projects and assignments.
This will include being able to interpret and understand mechanical systems quickly and to be able to delegate associated tasks to team members.
Experienced mechanical engineers will have been in the game for awhile, and as a result, understand how projects work from beginning to end much better than entry level engineers.
Experienced mechanical engineers are considered experts in their craft, and many junior engineers sought out to them for questions. These questions range from those such as industry specific questions, software specific questions, or company specific questions.
How much do Mechanical Engineers with over 10 years of experience make?
According to Indeed, mechanical engineers with more than 10 years of experience make about $120K base salary per year.
This figure does not include total compensation, so if you factor additional comp such as benefits, bonuses, stock options, mechanical engineers will make way more than $120K base salary.
What companies you should apply for to get high paying Mechanical Engineering jobs
Some companies you can get into regarding mechanical engineering (and that pay pretty well) are:
- Northrop Grumman
- SpaceX
- Boeing
- Blue Origin
- Virgin Galactic
As we always preach, its a numbers game and expect to apply to hundreds.
Use our template to get started on drafting your Senior Mechanical Engineering resume.
What you need to include in your Mechanical Engineering resume
You will need to make sure you have keywords, metrics (quantitative results and accomplishments), and required skillsets.
Check out: Mechanical Engineering Resume Review
Keywords and phrases for experienced mechanical engineers
We advise to include keywords and phrases on your mechanical engineering resume such as:
- Oversaw the design and production volume of X
- Executive leadership, engineering teams, stakeholders, etc.
- Industry applications – (Automotive, Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Biomedical, etc.)
- Created and improved X processes
- Designed products using X CAD software
- Newer technology such as composites manufacturing (Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM))
The above summarizes the keywords from job descriptions you’ll see for experienced mechanical engineers. Make sure to include these keywords and implement them through your existing experiences.
Also, when you’re implementing these mechanical engineering keywords on your resume, be prepared to talk about them in interviews. Nothing will make you look more worse than having a bunch of these engineering keywords on your resume, but not being able to talk about them!
Metrics
You should have proven metrics in which you are able to showcase your quantitative results and accomplishments. Think of instances where your projects have saved money, added to operating efficiency, or even improved mechanical properties of the systems you’re working on.
In short, look at the following metrics mechanical engineering related:
- Revenue – (sales, profit, etc.)
- Time Saved
- Cost Saved
- Efficiency Increases
- Tests Ran
- Products Released
- Respective revenue from those products released
Industries and Applications
We touched on this earlier, but it’s important that you include industries and applications on your resume.
Adding the specific industries and applications in your resume will frame you as a business asset.
Put industries on your resume such as:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Biomedical
- Construction
- Defense
- Residential
- Medical
- Oil & Gas
- Energy
- Solar
- Non-Renewable
Skillsets
As an experienced mechanical engineer, you should have familiarity with standards such as ANSI, ASME, API, HI, etc.
You should also have a strong understanding of fundamentals such as GD&T, CAD, CAM, and FEA.
There will be plenty of engineering discussions and conversations that will require you to have a basic understanding of metallurgy also. You will need to know things such as combinations of metals, corrosion resistance, compatibility between product and environment, and other things of that nature.
Mechanical Engineering FAQ
Use the template above, and fill in your experience and education as it relates to you.
From a high level standpoint, and experienced mechanical engineer should be able to design, perform analysis, or test. More experienced mechanical engineers generally take more lead roles and they delegate those tasks to sub-members of their teams.
According to the data we presented above, a mechanical engineer with 10+ years of experience should be making at least $120K base salary per year. This number will vary between locations and cost of living, but it is a rough number.
No. In a resume, your skills should showcase themselves. You shouldn’t have a “summary” section as it is redundant. Recruiters will be going through the “Experience” section in your resume anyways. If written correctly, the “Experience” section in your resume should summarize everything in a clear and concise manner.
To read more on resume summaries, check out: Should I Put a Summary On My Resume?
As an experienced mechanical engineer, you want the work that you have done to drive revenue and growth for the company.
Some examples are number of tests ran, products released, $ value of products designed that were sold – these metrics provide the hiring manager your overall business impact.
About the author
Kazuyoshi Fujimoto, PE
Founder | Engineering Career Coach | Principal Mechanical Engineer
Kazu oversees all of ultmeche’s engineering services. He provides consulting such as resume reviews, rewrites, mock interviews, and all services career related. Additionally, Kazu performs consulting work regarding Oil & Gas, Automotive, and Aerospace & Defense. Kazu is licensed as a professional engineer in the state of California and has 9+ years of experience in Oil & Gas, Automotive, and Aerospace & Defense.