A maintenance resume should show uptime, equipment, and safe diagnosis.

These titles can describe overlapping work, but keyword searches treat them as different queries. Put the title used in the vacancy at the top of your resume when it accurately describes your experience.

• Maintenance Technician
• Engineering Technician
• Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer
• Electrical Maintenance Technician
• Mechanical Maintenance Technician
• Facilities Technician

State your electrical, mechanical, controls, or facilities scope and the equipment on which you were authorised to work.

• Preventive maintenanceEssential

  Give asset count, schedule compliance, inspection depth, and defects found before failure.

  Also write: planned preventive maintenance · PPM · scheduled maintenance

• Fault findingEssential

  Name the system, test method, root cause, and safe restoration.

  Also write: troubleshooting · diagnostics · breakdown maintenance

• Electrical maintenance

  State voltage, drives, motors, panels, or test equipment within your competence.

  Also write: electrical fault finding · motor controls

• Mechanical maintenance

  Name conveyors, bearings, pumps, pneumatics, hydraulics, alignment, or another real system.

  Also write: mechanical repair · planned maintenance

• PLC diagnostics

  Clarify whether you diagnosed inputs and logic, modified programmes, or only reset faults.

  Also write: PLC fault finding · Siemens PLC · Allen-Bradley

Systems and instruments are useful filters when they show disciplined maintenance rather than a detached equipment list.

• CMMSEssential

  Name the platform and show work-order, history, parts, or compliance use.

  Also write: computerised maintenance management system · SAP PM · Maximo

• Siemens TIA Portal

  Relevant to Siemens controls when you can state diagnostic or programming scope accurately.

  Also write: STEP 7 · Siemens S7

• Multimeter

  Basic but meaningful when connected to isolation, testing, and a diagnosed fault.

  Also write: electrical test equipment · clamp meter

• Thermal imaging

  Useful for condition monitoring when anomalies led to planned corrective work.

  Also write: thermography · condition monitoring

Safety and trade qualifications are often eligibility filters. Give the exact award, level, and validity.

• NVQ Level 3 Engineering Maintenance

  A recognised vocational route for maintenance competence in the UK.

  Also write: Engineering Maintenance NVQ · Level 3 maintenance

• BTEC Engineering

  State discipline and level, such as electrical, mechanical, or operations and maintenance.

  Also write: BTEC Level 3 · HNC Engineering

• 18th Edition

  Relevant to electrical work when the qualification is current and accurately named.

  Also write: BS 7671 · IET Wiring Regulations

• IOSH Working Safely

  Supports safe working knowledge but does not replace task-specific authorisation.

  Also write: IOSH Managing Safely

Maintenance value is visible in reliability, safe control of work, clear handovers, and learning from repeat failures.

• Lockout tagoutEssential

  Use the site term and show isolation, verification, and permit discipline.

  Also write: LOTO · safe isolation

• Root cause analysis

  Connect repeat failure to a corrective action and recurrence result.

  Also write: RCA · 5 Whys · 8D

• Maintenance handover

  Show shift communication, outstanding risk, temporary repair, and follow-up control.

  Also write: shift handover · engineering handover

• Spare parts management

  Useful where availability, critical spares, and stock-outs affected uptime.

  Also write: MRO inventory · critical spares

The figures below are examples. Replace them with your own evidence—the structure is reusable, the content is not.

• Fixed all breakdowns

  Choose representative faults and show diagnosis, safety, restoration, and prevention.

• PLC programming without programme changes

  Use PLC diagnostics when that is the accurate scope.

• An unexplained list of machines

  Group equipment by system and connect key assets to maintenance outcomes.

• Zero accidents as a personal achievement

  Describe safe systems, isolations, permits, observations, or corrective actions you controlled.