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Underground Services Locator resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what underground services locators 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 underground services locators should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Underground services locator with a safety-first approach and experience in reading Before You Dig Australia plans and operating electromagnetic locators and ground penetrating radar. Skilled at marking service alignments accurately and communicating clear dig boundaries to excavation crews. Focused on reducing service strikes on civil, utilities and telecommunications projects.
Key skills
- Reading plans and specifications
- Worksite safety management
- Plant and equipment operation
- Field inspection and testing
- Regulatory compliance
- Before You Dig Australia (BYDA) plans
- Electromagnetic cable locator
- Ground penetrating radar (GPR)
- GNSS/GPS survey equipment
- GIS mapping software
- Attention to detail
- Written communication
- Problem solving
Experience: example bullet points
- Reviewed Dial Before You Dig plans and asset maps to identify likely service routes, cross-checking against site conditions and previous locate records to reduce unplanned encounters.
- Operated electromagnetic locators and ground penetrating radar to detect buried cables and pipes, achieving accurate marks that minimised rework and avoided damage to assets.
- Marked service alignments on the ground using paint, flags and pegs, keeping excavation teams within safe dig boundaries and reducing the need for repeat visits.
- Recorded location data via GNSS and updated digital asset registers, improving the accuracy of as-built records for future projects.
- Communicated with excavator operators and site supervisors to manage safe digging practices, leading to no service strikes on assigned sections.
Education
Certificate III in Civil Construction or Certificate IV in Electrical or Utilities, or a diploma in surveying or spatial information, combined with on-the-job training in underground asset location.
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.
- Before You Dig Australia (BYDA)
- Dial Before You Dig
- AS 5488
- electromagnetic locator
- ground penetrating radar (GPR)
- GNSS
- GIS
- service locating
- underground asset location
- safe dig
- utility mapping
- asset register
- White Card
- Work Health and Safety
- confined space
- traffic management
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.