Three real welder resumes, one per career stage, each with the templates that actually suit it and why.
Recommended for welders at this stage
Accent color
Free to build and read. No card needed.
Name the processes you are certified in, FCAW, SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, and the positions and materials, 6G pipe on carbon steel, flat and horizontal on stainless, right at the top. "Welder" alone tells a hiring manager almost nothing; a fabrication shop or contractor is filtering specifically for the process and position their job requires.
Weld rejection rate on X-ray or ultrasonic inspection, welds completed per shift, first-time pass rate on certification tests: these are the details a welding supervisor actually weighs. "Skilled, reliable welder" says nothing a competing resume does not also say. "Cut weld rejection rate from 6% to under 2%" is specific enough to be checked and remembered.
AWS D1.1, ASME Section IX, API, NACE, CWI: list each by its full name, the issuing body, and the date, since welding certifications lapse and most employers require proof of a recent requalification. A hiring manager scanning for a specific code qualification should be able to find it and its currency in five seconds.
Certifications expire and re-testing takes time to schedule, so a lapse between jobs is common and not something to hide. State your current qualification status honestly, including anything you are actively re-testing for, rather than leaving an expired certification listed as though it were current.
One page for an early-career welder with under roughly seven years in the trade. Two pages becomes reasonable once you are supervising crews, holding a CWI or similar inspection credential, or have enough certifications and project history that trimming to one page would cut real, relevant detail.
List the processes you are certified in clearly, with the certifying body and date, and you can note broader hands-on exposure separately and briefly. Presenting uncertified experience as though it were a formal qualification is the kind of thing that gets caught in a weld test on day one, which costs more trust than leaving it off.
State the certification with the date you last held it rather than listing it as current if it has lapsed, and note if you are actively scheduling a requalification test. Most welding employers expect to re-test candidates on hire regardless, so an honest, dated certification list matters more than an inflated one that does not hold up on the shop floor.
Upload what you have. We rewrite it against the standards our writers built over 80,000 resumes, and you read the whole thing before deciding anything.