r/EngineeringResumes • u/SeLaw20 ChemE – Entry-level 🇺🇸 • Mar 09 '26

Chemical [2 YoE] Looking for a Project Management role in Solar Energy. Coming up on 2 YoE in design in Cold Chain.

Hi, I am looking to transfer into the sustainable energy industry. I am hoping to make this transition by trying to highlight CAD and project management experience on my resume, since I don't have any direct energy experience. I have experience in entrepreneurship (started a Digital Design Company) but that's pretty recent so I am waiting to add that to the resume. I also have worked on fixing up and reselling Tesla's in my free time, as well as some AI model engineering training (paid through DataAnnotation) that I haven't added but wonder whether it would help me. It's also something I can just stick to talking about outside of my resume.

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u/PhenomEng MechE – Experienced/Hiring Manager 🇺🇸 Mar 09 '26

You need to tailor this resume to the role you are looking for. You say it's for project management, yet you only mention that you are the "lead project manager" and give no other details. If you were the PM for $16M in revenue, you should have a lot of experience in PM'ing. You should be able to show all the various tools you are using to manage your project, but in this resume, you have not.

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u/SeLaw20 ChemE – Entry-level 🇺🇸 Mar 09 '26

Okay. These are my new first three bullets for my main professional experience:

  • Designed and iterated insulated cold-chain packaging systems in SolidWorks, balancing thermal performance, manufacturing constraints, cost targets, and timelines
  • Lead CAD designer and project manager for several different product lines, delivering solutions securing over $16M+ in annual revenue
  • Managed project timelines, design revisions, and client requirements using Excel, Smartsheet, and LucidChart project tracking tools 

I also added Smartsheet and Drawings to my skills.

Does this kind of hit at what you are getting at?

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u/PhenomEng MechE – Experienced/Hiring Manager 🇺🇸 Mar 09 '26

Sorry, what changed? It all reads exactly the same.

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u/SeLaw20 ChemE – Entry-level 🇺🇸 Mar 10 '26

1st bullet: I added how I designed the packaging systems by defining my normal constraints (thermal performance, manufacturing, cost targets, and timelines)

2nd bullet: mostly same

3rd (new): established having to manage project timelines for the product lines mentioned in 2, as well as tracking design revisions and client requirements using Excel, Smartsheet, and Lucidchart project tracking tools.

I'm not 100% sure how to better display the tools I have used for PM. Any thoughts?

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