Mechanical Engineer Oil and Gas Resume

Mechanical Engineer Oil and Gas Resume

See how we divide up our sections for a mechanical engineering resume in the oil and gas industry.

We break up how to divide experience, education, and specific skills in your resume.

Additionally, we’ll go over specific mechanical engineering keywords and how to include quantitative results and accomplishments on your resume.

What to include in your oil and gas resume for mechanical engineers:

Experience

As a seasoned engineer in oil and gas, the experience section will come first. Recruiters in oil and gas will quickly scan through your resume and look to see if you have relevant experience.

Along with which companies you’ve worked in, recruiters will be looking at your roles and skillsets that you have.

You must include quantifiable results and accomplishments in your resume.

See below for a good example which combines both keywords and quantitative results.

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Education

Include your education right after experience.

Call out the university you went to, your major, your GPA (if above 3.0), and year you graduated.

Include specific awards, accolades, and accomplishments underneath as bullet points.

Use this formatting below:

Additional Items To Include In Your Oil and Gas Resume

The rest of your resume should consist of an Additional section, which includes skills, certifications, and awards.

This is a good section to also capture keywords that are relevant to the job description for oil and gas companies.

Technical Skills

Here in our sample mechanical engineering resume for oil and gas we have skills such as:

• CAD – PTC Creo 3.0 / ProEngiener / Siemens NX / SolidWorks
• Programming – JavaScript / HTML / CSS / MATLAB / Python

Depending on which specific role you’re applying to within oil and gas you’ll want to make sure you have the appropriate software.

Software varies depending on disciplines such as Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Design Engineering, or Research and Development Engineering.

Awards

Use this as a means to pad your resume with any specific awards you’ve gotten. This shows that you’re not just a doer, but an accomplisher.

Include awards such as Spot Awards, Dean’s Lists, Scholarships, Competitions, and anything engineering related.

Certifications pertaining to Oil and Gas jobs

Include certifications such as Engineer In Training, Professional Engineering License, or Project Management Professional.

Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt are good additions to add as well.

Oil & Gas companies are looking to become more lean and streamline processes to cut on costs.

Keywords

Job descriptions will be full of keywords that you must include in your resume.

The recruiter or application tracking software will scan through your resume VERY QUICKLY.

If you have the time, tailor your resume to each job description.

If you don’t have the time, then make sure the general mechanical engineering oil and gas resume you use contains all the necessary keywords from various job descriptions that you’re interested in.

Check out Indeed for mechanical engineering job postings for oil and gas.

Quantitative Results and Accomplishments

I go in depth regarding how to include quantitative results and accomplishments in a previous post.

The following values are what we recommend to use to include regarding quantitative results and accomplishments:

• % increase in efficiency
• % increase in material strength or factor of safety
• Revenue of parts designed, tested, manufactured, etc.
• On time percentage
• Number of team members
• Number of processes
• Bill of materials – line item numbers, dollar value, completion time
• Number of components, projects, jobs

Although many job applicants struggle with including quantitative results, it’s actually easy. You just need to properly frame your experiences in such a manner that integrates the above. (It’s even possible with easy retail jobs)

For specific roles, see some examples of how you can include quantitative results and accomplishments for these oil and gas jobs:

Design Engineer

• Designed $10M USD of equipment consisting of valves, compressors, pumps, and turbines for the Oil and Gas Industry
• Used Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles to re-design pressure vessel components, resulting in a 50% decrease in lead time
• Processed production orders for machined components such as shafting, bearings, and casings resulting in revenue of $1M+

Manufacturing Engineer

• Create and improve 30% manufacturing processes for the creation of structural assemblies for pressure vessels
• Determined manufacturing processes using the SQDC framework, resulting in 0 safety incidents and reduced written non-conformance tags by 10%

Test Engineer

• Issued post-test work instructions for development tests; increasing pump efficiency by 1 – 3 %
• Created test engineering drawings & bills of materials; achieving 100% on time completion for tests

Structural Engineer

• Performed FEA (Finite Element Analysis) using ANSYS for large scale projects valued at $500K+ in the agricultural industry
• Made recommendations based on FEM results such as geometry changes and material selection that increased factors of safety by 50%
• Determined material selection of components sold in parts catalogue, resulting in revenue of $500K USD

Project Manager

• Tracked and maintained master schedule, hold weekly status meetings, and receive constant updates from stakeholders, resulting in an on time delivery of 96% for 100+ large scale projects valued at $2M USD
• Implemented Lean 5S principles in manufacturing area, resulting in a decrease in manufacturing cycle time by 50%
• Oversaw large scale projects valued between $300K ~ $2M for industries such as agriculture, power, and municipal

Engineering Manager

• Developed career goal plans for associate engineers, resulting in an increase in company retention rate of 30%
• Directed the design of 100+ standard pump components using geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (ASME Y14.5)