Engineering CV templates 2026 for engineers

Engineering CV templates

For mechanical, electrical, construction and maintenance engineers and technicians. Room for trade certificates, equipment you have operated and projects you have worked on.

A section for trade certificatesList safety certificates, machine operation licences and skill levels.List the projects you worked onNote the scale, your role and the timeline of each project.Equipment and software you knowMachinery you have operated and engineering software get their own block.

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Engineering CV: projects, equipment and safety certificates before the personal statement

7 sectionsAbout 3 min readUpdated 01/10/2026

Engineering managers and site managers screen engineers' CVs by keyword: AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Siemens PLC, safety card, construction practising certificate. They need to know what you draw with, which machines you have run and what scale of project you have worked on. An engineering CV template therefore puts skills, equipment and certificates first. This article shows how to write one for mechanical, electrical and construction roles, and how to choose among the 12 templates.

The keywords recruiters use to screen engineers' CVs

Each branch of engineering has its own set of keywords, and the reader looks for exactly those words in the first few seconds. Use the exact names of software, equipment ranges and drawing standards, abbreviated the way the industry does.

Branch	Software and equipment often searched for	Certificates often asked for
Mechanical	Software and equipment often searched forSolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, CNC machines	Certificates often asked for3G and 6G welding; operating lifting and pressure equipment
Electrical, automation	Software and equipment often searched forSiemens and Mitsubishi PLCs, HMI, variable frequency drives, EPLAN	Certificates often asked forElectrical safety card, occupational safety
Construction, M&E	Software and equipment often searched forAutoCAD, Revit, MS Project, cost estimating, HVAC	Certificates often asked forPractising certificates for supervision and design

Section order: certificates before experience

After your contact details comes a one-line summary such as "Electrical and automation engineer, 5 years, Siemens and Mitsubishi PLCs, 3 production lines handed over". Next comes a block of software, equipment and the standards you have worked to. Then certificates: occupational safety card, construction practising certificate with its class, welding certificates, each with the issuer and expiry date. Experience by project comes after that, and education at the bottom of the page.

Projects: give the scale, your role and the result

For each project, give four things: the type of project, its scale, your role and a measurable result. In engineering, the formula action, number, result becomes: what you did, on which system, and how much it improved.

Example projects section for an electrical and automation engineer

Electrical and Automation Engineer, X M&E Company, Dong Nai, 06/2021 to present

Programmed a Siemens S7-1500 PLC and WinCC HMI for a filling line running 12,000 bottles an hour, handed over on schedule after 5 months. Cut downtime caused by sensor faults from 40 minutes to 10 minutes per shift by adding fault diagnostics to the operator screen.

Civil engineers write it the same way: "supervised the structural works of a 25-storey building, 120 workers; 14 of 15 milestones accepted on time; no accidents in 18 months".

Mistakes that get an engineer's CV rejected

Listing ten software packages with no level and no version.
Projects with no scale and no role.
No safety certificates when applying to a factory or construction site.
Not saying you are willing to work on site, do shifts or travel to other provinces.
Writing "completed assigned tasks" instead of a measurable result.

A missing safety card causes the longest delay: factories will not let you onto the shop floor without one.

English or Vietnamese, and how long

Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and European-owned factories accept English CVs and value a second foreign language; Japanese N3, Korean TOPIK and Chinese HSK are often named explicitly in job posts. Domestic contractors and M&E companies accept Vietnamese. Keep technical terms in English in both versions: PLC, HMI, HVAC, BOQ, shop drawing. One to two pages; move a long list of projects to an appendix and keep three to five representative projects in the main CV.

Which of the 12 engineering CV templates to choose

This group has 12 templates, because engineering ranges from mechanical to construction. If you have a lot of software and certificates, choose a two-column template: the side column holds software, equipment and certificates, and the main column is for projects. If you are applying through a large group's careers portal, choose a one-column template so the screening system reads it correctly. Each template offers 10 layouts, 36 backgrounds and 69 fonts; fill it in once, download a PDF, and you can match it against a job post to see which keywords are still missing.

Frequently asked questions

List your graduation project and course projects as projects: topic, software used, outcome and grade. Add your placements in workshops or on construction sites, with the work you did and the equipment you handled.

Yes, with the expiry date and a line saying you are willing to retrain. Many factories run their own periodic training for new starters, so having held a card is still a plus.

For design engineers, yes: choose three to five representative drawings or models, export them to PDF and put the link in your CV. Drawings from confidential projects can only be used with permission.

Engineering CV templates