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Boiler Operator resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what boiler operators actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most boiler operators should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Boiler Operator with hands-on experience running steam plant in industrial settings. Skilled at monitoring pressure, temperature and water levels, adjusting combustion to match steam demand, and treating feedwater to protect tubes and drums. Works safely on rotating shifts and keeps logs accurate enough for the next operator to trust.
Key skills
- Boiler start-up, shut-down and isolation
- Steam demand and combustion control
- Feedwater and condensate testing and treatment
- Plant and equipment operation
- Preventive maintenance and CMMS
- DCS and SCADA monitoring
- Boiler management systems
- Flue gas analysis and combustion tuning
- Worksite safety management and permit to work
- Process improvement
- Attention to detail and accurate logging
- Problem solving under alarm conditions
Experience: example bullet points
- Monitor boiler pressure, temperature, water level and steam demand across rotating shifts, adjusting fuel, air and water flows to hold header pressure within band.
- Test and treat feedwater and condensate, reducing scale and corrosion-related tube failures across the plant.
- Start, stop and isolate boilers, pumps and valves for planned maintenance, completing isolations without unplanned steam releases.
- Record operating readings and respond to alarms, tracing a recurring low-water trip to a faulty level probe and clearing the fault before the next shift.
- Work with maintenance and contractors on permit-to-work isolations for boiler house repairs, keeping adjacent live plant protected.
- Tune combustion using flue gas analyser readings, cutting fuel use noticeably while maintaining steam output.
Education
Certificate III in Engineering (Mechanical) or Certificate III in Process Plant Operations, or a trade background with on-site boiler operation training.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Boiler operation
- Steam plant
- Feedwater treatment
- Condensate testing
- DCS
- SCADA
- CMMS
- Flue gas analyser
- Combustion tuning
- AS 2593
- AS/NZS 3788
- WHS legislation
- Confined space entry
- Working at heights
- Permit to work
- Shift handover
- Pressure vessel
- High risk work licence
- Gas fitting licence
- Boiler management system
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.