A CV for a site role
What to put on a CV when you are going for a site manager, supervisor, engineer or leading hand role.
A site CV is a record of work, not a slogan. One or two pages is enough. The person reading it wants to know what you ran, where, and for whom you were accountable.
Lead with the current role. Job title, employer, dates, state, and the project. Then the package you were on: structure, civil, fit-out, shutdown, building. Say whether you were the site manager, the supervisor, the engineer or the leading hand. Those are different seats.
Say what you were responsible for in plain words. The crew, the subcontractors, the programme for your package, the safety conversations, the quality hold points. If you had people reporting to you, say so, and say whether they were direct employees or subcontract. You do not need a table of made-up percentages.
Put current licences and tickets near the top, with expiry dates. A white card, a high risk work licence, a driver licence class, a first aid certificate. Expired tickets can go to a short line or come off. Do not bury a current dogging ticket under a paragraph about being a team player.
Name projects you are allowed to name. If a client or a builder has asked you not to, describe the work instead: “a hospital fit-out in Adelaide”, “a bridge package in regional Queensland”. Do not invent a project to fill a gap.
Skip the beach photograph and the opening paragraph of adjectives. Use a PDF. Put your name in the file name. Bring a printed copy if the interview is in a site shed, because the screen may be a phone in the sun.
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