Two-Page Resume Example for a Senior Professional
A director of manufacturing operations in Milwaukee with 18 years in the field. With that much relevant work a second page earns its place: the two most recent jobs get full detail on page one, and the older ones get shorter the further back they go.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, certifications and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Operations leader with 18 years in discrete manufacturing, the last 7 running multi-plant operations. Currently responsible for 3 plants, 640 employees and $310 million in annual output. Raised on-time delivery from 86% to 97%, cut scrap by about a third and opened a new plant on schedule and under budget.”
At this level the summary gives scope first: plants, people and output. A hiring executive is checking whether the step up to their company's size makes sense, and the three results that follow are the ones they will ask about.
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“Raised on-time delivery from 86% to 97% in two years by moving all 3 plants onto one S&OP process and a shared daily production meeting”
Each result names the method. At director level the question is not whether things improved but whether this person caused it, and the method is the evidence.
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“Opened a 180,000 sq ft plant in Cedar Rapids on schedule and $1.4 million under its $42 million budget, hiring 150 people in 10 months”
A large project gets its size, schedule, budget and hiring in one line. These are the numbers a CEO or board tracks, so they are the ones to lead with.
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“Raised OEE on the main machining line from 61% to 78% with SMED changeover work and a new preventive maintenance schedule”
OEE and SMED are standard manufacturing terms, used without explanation because the people reading this resume use them daily. Translating is for a career change; a senior resume in the same field can speak the field's language.
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“Managed production, maintenance and shipping for a two-shift foundry with 140 employees”
Page two starts with the third job, which gets fewer and shorter bullets. Detail follows relevance: a hiring manager reads the last seven years closely and the rest for the shape of the career.
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“Designed fixtures and CNC programs for a new gear line, cutting cycle time 18%”
The oldest job gets one line. It shows where the career started without spending space on work from 18 years ago, and trimming here is how a long career stays at two pages.
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, so a resume with little work history can be a good example of its kind and still not score high.
Copy the text
Use it as a skeleton, then replace every line with your own work. A copied bullet with someone else's numbers is the fastest way to fail an interview question.
Sidney Kessler Director of Manufacturing Operations Milwaukee, WI | sidney.kessler@example.com SUMMARY Operations leader with 18 years in discrete manufacturing, the last 7 running multi-plant operations. Currently responsible for 3 plants, 640 employees and $310 million in annual output. Raised on-time delivery from 86% to 97%, cut scrap by about a third and opened a new plant on schedule and under budget. EXPERIENCE Director of Manufacturing Operations, Lakeshore Fluid Systems | Apr 2019 - Present - Run 3 plants in Wisconsin and Iowa with 640 employees, 6 direct reports and a $38 million operating budget - Raised on-time delivery from 86% to 97% in two years by moving all 3 plants onto one S&OP process and a shared daily production meeting - Cut scrap from 4.8% to 3.1% of material cost, about $2.6 million a year, through a lean program that trained 120 employees in Six Sigma methods - Opened a 180,000 sq ft plant in Cedar Rapids on schedule and $1.4 million under its $42 million budget, hiring 150 people in 10 months - Lowered the recordable injury rate from 3.2 to 1.4 over four years with a near-miss reporting program run by floor teams - Led operations through the move to SAP S/4HANA, with cutover at all 3 plants and no missed customer shipments Plant Manager, Lakeshore Fluid Systems | Jan 2015 - Mar 2019 - Ran a 260-employee valve plant with $95 million in annual output and 4 department managers reporting directly - Raised OEE on the main machining line from 61% to 78% with SMED changeover work and a new preventive maintenance schedule - Led the management side of the 2018 contract negotiation with the United Steelworkers local, ratified with no work stoppage - Cut finished-goods inventory from 41 to 26 days of supply while keeping on-time delivery above 95% - Promoted 5 supervisors into manager roles, 3 of whom now run departments at other company plants Operations Manager, Badger Precision Castings | Jun 2012 - Dec 2014 - Managed production, maintenance and shipping for a two-shift foundry with 140 employees - Cut overtime 30% by rebuilding the shift schedule around order data instead of fixed crews - Took the plant through ISO 9001 recertification with no major findings - Replaced 2 aging melt furnaces on a $3.1 million capital project, finished in a planned two-week shutdown Production Supervisor, Badger Precision Castings | Aug 2010 - May 2012 - Supervised 35 second-shift operators and raised first-pass yield from 91% to 95% - Started the plant's first shift-handoff log, later adopted on all shifts Manufacturing Engineer, Northfield Gear Works | Jun 2008 - Jul 2010 - Designed fixtures and CNC programs for a new gear line, cutting cycle time 18% EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS MBA, Marquette University, 2016 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, 2008 Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), ASQ, 2013 Certified in Planning and Inventory Management (CPIM), ASCM, 2017 SKILLS Multi-plant operations, Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, S&OP, SAP S/4HANA, Capital projects, Labor relations, OSHA compliance, P&L management PROFESSIONAL Member, Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Teach the lean module in the company's frontline supervisor program, 40 graduates since 2021
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