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Plastics Technician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what plastics technicians 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 plastics technicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Plastics Technician with hands-on experience in injection moulding, extrusion and blow moulding. Skilled at setting up and troubleshooting polymer processing equipment to keep parts within specification. Focused on quality, safety and continuous process improvement.
Key skills
- Plant and equipment operation
- Process improvement
- Injection moulding machine controllers
- Reading plans and specifications
- Worksite safety management
- Moldflow
- SolidWorks
- Minitab
- SAP
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Time and deadline management
Experience: example bullet points
- Set up and adjusted injection moulding machines for daily production runs, reducing changeover downtime by two hours per shift.
- Troubleshot extrusion faults and adjusted process parameters, lifting first-pass yield across a 12-machine line.
- Maintained moulds and auxiliary equipment, cutting unplanned stoppages from four per week to one.
- Tested finished parts for dimensional accuracy, weight and strength, identifying out-of-spec runs before they reached assembly.
- Recorded production data in SAP and supported quality audits, maintaining traceability for every batch.
- Monitored process parameters on blow moulding lines, catching material feed issues before they caused scrap.
Education
Certificate III in Polymer Processing (PMB30116) or Certificate IV in Manufacturing Technology, or equivalent industry experience. Many technicians also enter with Year 12 and complete on-the-job 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.
- injection moulding
- extrusion
- blow moulding
- polymer processing
- process troubleshooting
- mould maintenance
- quality control
- SAP
- Moldflow
- SolidWorks
- Minitab
- lean manufacturing
- 5S
- WHS
- Australian Standards
- Certificate III in Polymer Processing
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.