Electrical Engineer Resume Example
A mid-level electrical engineer in Kansas City, nine years in, who started in building electrical design and now designs distribution substations for rural electric cooperatives at an engineering firm.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Power systems engineer (PE) with 9 years in electrical design, the last 5 on distribution substations from 12.47kV to 69kV for electric cooperatives. Lead protection and control design and run short circuit, coordination and arc flash studies in ETAP. Licensed in Missouri and Kansas.”
Discipline, voltage range, clients, the work this engineer leads and the states where they can seal drawings. A power engineering manager places the candidate from that.
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“Lead electrical design on 11 distribution substations from 12.47kV to 69kV, with transformers up to 28 MVA”
Project count, voltage range and equipment size. That is how a substation manager sizes up experience.
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“Ran short circuit, coordination and arc flash studies in ETAP to IEEE 1584-2018 for 60 co-op substations”
The studies, the software, the standard and a count. 'Performed engineering calculations' tells the reader none of that.
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“Supported energization on 8 projects, all within the utility's planned outage window”
A field result. A manager wants to know the designs worked on real equipment, on the outage date.
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“Cut drawing review rounds from about 3 to under 2 per project with a standard one-line and three-line set in AutoCAD Electrical”
A process fix with a before and after, which also shows this engineer checks other people's work.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
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Emery Achterberg Electrical Engineer, PE, Substation and Distribution Design Kansas City, MO | emery.achterberg@example.com SUMMARY Power systems engineer (PE) with 9 years in electrical design, the last 5 on distribution substations from 12.47kV to 69kV for electric cooperatives. Lead protection and control design and run short circuit, coordination and arc flash studies in ETAP. Licensed in Missouri and Kansas. EXPERIENCE Project Engineer, Substations, Prairie Line Engineering | Jun 2021 - Present - Lead electrical design on 11 distribution substations from 12.47kV to 69kV, with transformers up to 28 MVA - Design protection and control schemes and issue settings for about 40 SEL feeder and transformer relays a year - Ran short circuit, coordination and arc flash studies in ETAP to IEEE 1584-2018 for 60 co-op substations - Supported energization on 8 projects, all within the utility's planned outage window - Cut drawing review rounds from about 3 to under 2 per project with a standard one-line and three-line set in AutoCAD Electrical - Mentor 2 EITs preparing for the PE exam and check their calculations before issue Electrical Designer, then Electrical Engineer, Crown Line Consulting Engineers | Jul 2017 - May 2021 - Designed power and lighting for 20 schools and office buildings up to 180,000 sq ft in Revit, to the NEC - Sized services and standby generators up to 2,000 A and 750 kW and wrote the electrical specifications for bid EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS Professional Engineer, Missouri and Kansas, 2022 (NCEES PE Electrical and Computer: Power) B.S. Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University, 2017 SKILLS ETAP, SEL relays (AcSELerator QuickSet), AutoCAD Electrical, Revit, Protection and control, Arc flash (IEEE 1584), NEC and NESC, Substation design
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