Plumber resume tips
A plumber resume is a license level and a class of work. Service in homes, commercial rough-in, and a new-construction crew are different. Write apprentice, journeyman, or master only as the card says. Name the systems you have repaired or installed: drains, water heaters, fixtures, or piping. A ticket you do not hold is not a footnote you can stretch.
What to put first
Put the license, the state or locality, and your level near your name. Then residential or commercial, and service or new work. If you are an apprentice, say so and name the tasks you have been allowed to finish.
The system
Name drains, supply, fixtures, water heaters, or gas if you are licensed and assigned for gas. "All phases of plumbing" hides the work. A reviewer who runs a shop can tell.
Service versus rough-in
A service van and a ground-up crew are different applications. Say which your week was. If you did both, give each a line.
Code and the customer
You can say you install to the standard the job requires and that you pull a permit when the shop does. Do not recite code sections to sound impressive. Do not claim an inspection power you did not have.
An example line
Adapt this only where it is true for you. It is a shape for a bullet, not a claim that a particular person did this work.
Journeyman on a residential service van: cleared drain stoppages, replaced fixtures, and set water heaters, with permits pulled when the job required them.
What to leave off
Leave off a license level you have not reached, gas or medical-gas work you are not ticketed for, and systems you only watched. Leave off a backflow credential you do not hold. Leave off stories about other plumbers' mistakes.
Questions
- What if each city words the license differently?
- Use the words on your card. Do not translate them into another place's title unless that place has already recognized you.
- Should I list every house?
- List the employer, the setting, and the systems. A street list matters less than the license and the work.