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Industrial Designer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what industrial designers 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 industrial designers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Industrial Designer with a practical grounding in user research, CAD modelling and prototyping, translating early concepts into products that can actually be manufactured. Comfortable moving between sketching, digital rendering and workshop-based prototyping, and confident presenting design rationale to engineers, manufacturers and clients.
Key skills
- UX and interaction design
- CAD and technical drawing
- Fusion 360
- SolidWorks
- Rhino 3D
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Prototyping and workshop fabrication
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
Experience: example bullet points
- Developed product concepts from initial sketches through to digital renders, presenting design variations to stakeholders for sign-off
- Ran usability testing sessions with target users and fed findings back into design iterations, improving product function and comfort
- Built physical prototypes using workshop tools and 3D printing, reducing the number of design revisions needed before tooling
- Worked with manufacturing engineers to resolve production constraints, adjusting wall thickness and assembly details to bring unit cost down
- Produced CAD models and technical drawings in SolidWorks and Fusion 360 for handover to manufacturers
- Presented design rationale and visual mockups to clients, securing approval to progress projects to the next design stage
Education
Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) or an equivalent bachelor degree is the typical entry pathway; some designers enter via a Diploma of Product Design or move into the field through a postgraduate design qualification.
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.
- CAD
- SolidWorks
- Fusion 360
- Rhino 3D
- Adobe Creative Suite
- design for manufacture (DFM)
- prototyping
- user-centred design
- product lifecycle
- technical drawings
- AS/NZS standards
- UX design
- usability testing
- industrial design
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.