Engineering
Mechanical Engineer resume example
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Tomás Ferreira
t.ferreira@example.com | +351 21 555 0166 | Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
Mechanical design engineer working on rotating equipment for industrial pumps. Most recently took 18% out of an impeller assembly's mass without changing its fatigue life.
Experience
Mechanical Design Engineer
Jun 2021 – Present
Almada Fluid Systems, Lisbon, Portugal
Reduced impeller assembly mass 18% while holding the same rated fatigue life, verified by 2 million-cycle rig testing.
Cut warranty returns on a pump seal from 4.2% to 0.9% by re-specifying the elastomer and the groove tolerance.
Took 6 weeks out of a 20-week development cycle by replacing 3 physical prototypes with validated CFD runs.
Released 40 drawings to ASME Y14.5 with zero rework requests from the machine shop over 2 years.
Graduate Mechanical Engineer
Sep 2019 – May 2021
Setúbal Heavy Engineering, Setúbal, Portugal
Investigated 11 field failures of a gearbox housing and traced 8 of them to a single casting porosity defect.
Redesigned a lifting fixture that cut assembly line changeover from 45 minutes to 12.
Education
MEng, Mechanical Engineering
Sep 2014 – Jul 2019
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 17/20
Skills
Design: SolidWorks, GD&T to ASME Y14.5, Sheet metal, Casting design
Analysis: ANSYS Mechanical, Fatigue analysis, CFD, MATLAB
Why it is written this way
A constraint makes a result meaningful
“Reduced weight 18%” is good. “Reduced weight 18% while holding the same fatigue life” is engineering, and it is the version a hiring engineer can evaluate.
Standards are named
ASME, ISO and the specific test regime are the vocabulary of the field. Naming them is not keyword stuffing when the work was genuinely done to them.
The tool list separates CAD from analysis
Drawing a part and predicting how it fails are different competences. A single row containing both invites the wrong assumption in either direction.
Shapes to fill in
Each blank is yours to complete. These are the same scaffolds the builder offers for this occupation — none of them says anything until you fill it in, which is what keeps them useful rather than a lie somebody else wrote.
Made something faster or cheaper
- Cut ___ from ___ to ___ by ___
- Reduced ___ by ___% by ___
- Removed ___ from ___, saving ___ per ___
- Automated ___, taking it from ___ of manual work to ___
Shipped something
- Shipped ___, used by ___
- Built ___ that ___, replacing ___
- Launched ___ in ___, ___ ahead of ___
- Delivered ___ across ___ with ___
Improved quality or reliability
- Cut ___ defects from ___ to ___ by ___
- Raised ___ from ___ to ___ over ___
- Eliminated ___, ending ___ that had cost ___
- Introduced ___, cutting ___ incidents by ___%
Also called
Air Conditioning Engineer (AC Engineer) · Application Engineer · Automation Engineer · Body Engineer · Brake Engineer · Car Designer · Combustion Engineer · Cooling and Heating Systems Design Engineer · Cryogenics Engineer · Design Engineer
From the O*NET occupation database. Worth checking which of these a posting uses, because that is the wording its keyword search will be built on.
What a parser reads from this resume
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Tomás Ferreira t.ferreira@example.com | +351 21 555 0166 | Lisbon, Portugal SUMMARY Mechanical design engineer working on rotating equipment for industrial pumps. Most recently took 18% out of an impeller assembly's mass without changing its fatigue life. EXPERIENCE Mechanical Design Engineer | Jun 2021 - Present Almada Fluid Systems, Lisbon, Portugal - Reduced impeller assembly mass 18% while holding the same rated fatigue life, verified by 2 million-cycle rig testing. - Cut warranty returns on a pump seal from 4.2% to 0.9% by re-specifying the elastomer and the groove tolerance. - Took 6 weeks out of a 20-week development cycle by replacing 3 physical prototypes with validated CFD runs. - Released 40 drawings to ASME Y14.5 with zero rework requests from the machine shop over 2 years. Graduate Mechanical Engineer | Sep 2019 - May 2021 Setúbal Heavy Engineering, Setúbal, Portugal - Investigated 11 field failures of a gearbox housing and traced 8 of them to a single casting porosity defect. - Redesigned a lifting fixture that cut assembly line changeover from 45 minutes to 12. EDUCATION MEng, Mechanical Engineering | Sep 2014 - Jul 2019 Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 17/20 SKILLS Design: SolidWorks, GD&T to ASME Y14.5, Sheet metal, Casting design Analysis: ANSYS Mechanical, Fatigue analysis, CFD, MATLAB