Three complete pipefitter resumes below – apprentice, journeyman and foreman. Copy whichever matches your stage, swap in your own locals, tickets and numbers, and delete anything you cannot evidence.
One thing decides how far a pipefitter resume gets read, and it is not the summary. It is your weld qualifications, stated with position and material. A general foreman scanning applications is looking for whether you can legally weld on his job, and everything else is secondary to that.
Pipefitter resume example 1: apprentice
For an apprentice, the hours and the class attendance carry more weight than the task list. Note that the hour log is mentioned – that is the thing the coordinator actually cares about.
TYLER BRENNAN Toledo, OH 43604 · (419) 555-0188 · t.brennan.fit@email.com 3rd-year apprentice, UA Local 50 · 4,100 OJT hours logged OSHA 30 · Confined space · Valid OH CDL-B Available for travel and shutdown work SUMMARY Third-year pipefitter apprentice with 4,100 of the 8,000 hours required for journeyman. Commercial mechanical and light industrial. Currently qualified 6G on carbon steel, working toward stainless. Have not missed a scheduled class in three years. EXPERIENCE Pipefitter Apprentice - Maumee Mechanical, Toledo, OH Sep 2023 - Present - Installed process and hydronic piping on 3 hospital and 2 data centre projects, 1/2" through 8" carbon steel and copper - Cut, bevelled and fit up to isometric drawings; hi-lo within spec on all fit-ups checked by the foreman - Tacked and welded SMAW root and fill on 2" to 6" carbon under journeyman supervision - Assisted on hydrostatic testing of 14 systems, no re-tests required on lines I fitted - Rigged and set pumps, air handlers and heat exchangers - Kept my own hour log, signed weekly by the foreman Warehouse Operative - Great Lakes Distribution, Toledo, OH Jun 2022 - Aug 2023 - Order picking and forklift. Perfect attendance over 14 months. WELD QUALIFICATIONS ASME Section IX, SMAW, 6G, carbon steel, 2" sch 40 - current Continuity maintained; log available CERTIFICATIONS OSHA 30 Construction · Confined space entry · Rigging awareness First aid / CPR · CDL-B (2024) SKILLS Isometric drawings and spool sheets · Bevelling and fit-up Threading and grooving · Hydrostatic testing support Torque and bolt-up procedures · Rigging and signalling EDUCATION UA Local 50 apprenticeship - expected completion 2027 High school diploma - Toledo, OH, 2022 REFERENCES Foreman and apprenticeship coordinator on request.
Pipefitter resume example 2: journeyman, industrial
The middle of the trade. The weld qualifications block is doing most of the work here, and the reject rate against site average is the line a superintendent will stop on.
DANIEL OYELARAN Baton Rouge, LA 70802 · (225) 555-0147 · d.oyelaran.pf@email.com Journeyman Pipefitter · UA Local 198 · 9 years 6G qualified: GTAW/SMAW, carbon · GTAW, stainless · P11 chrome TWIC card · OSHA 30 · Available for turnarounds nationwide SUMMARY Journeyman pipefitter with nine years on refinery, chemical and power process piping. Qualified 6G on carbon, stainless and P11 chrome-moly to ASME Section IX. Ran a four-fitter crew on the last two turnarounds. Weld reject rate under 2% on RT-inspected joints across 2024-2025. EXPERIENCE Journeyman Pipefitter - Delta Industrial Services, Baton Rouge, LA Mar 2019 - Present - Process piping in refinery and chemical plant environments, 1/2" through 24", carbon, 304/316 stainless and P11 - GTAW root with SMAW or FCAW fill and cap per WPS; TIG-only on stainless and chrome - Weld reject rate 1.7% on 340+ RT-inspected joints in 2025 against a site average of 4.5% - Fit and welded to isometrics with spool tracking; no field re-work chargebacks in the last three turnarounds - PWHT coordination on P11 welds: preheat, interpass monitoring, documentation for the QC package - Led a 4-fitter crew on two shutdowns, 12-hour nights - Hydrostatic and pneumatic testing to spec, punch-list clearing Pipefitter - Gulf Coast Mechanical, Lake Charles, LA Jul 2016 - Feb 2019 - Commercial and light industrial: chilled water, steam, compressed air, medical gas - ASSE 6010 medical gas installer certification, 2018 WELD QUALIFICATIONS (ASME Section IX) GTAW + SMAW, 6G, carbon steel, sch 40 through sch 80 - current GTAW, 6G, 304/316 stainless - current GTAW + SMAW, 6G, P11 chrome-moly - current Continuity log maintained; copies of all WPQRs available CERTIFICATIONS TWIC · OSHA 30 · Confined space · Rigging and signalling ASSE 6010 medical gas · Respirator fit test current SKILLS Materials: carbon, 304/316 SS, P11/P22, copper, CPVC Systems: process, steam, chilled water, compressed air, med gas Reading P&IDs, isometrics, weld maps and WPS documents Bolt-up and flange management to torque spec Crew leadership and punch-list management EDUCATION UA Local 198 apprenticeship - journeyman 2016 REFERENCES General foreman and QC inspector on request.
Pipefitter resume example 3: foreman and turnaround
At foreman level the resume shifts from what you can weld to what you can run. Note that the tickets are still there – a foreman who has let his continuity lapse is a foreman who cannot fill in when someone is short.
RAYMOND KOVACH Pittsburgh, PA 15222 · (412) 555-0163 · r.kovach.pf@email.com Pipefitter Foreman · UA Local 449 · 17 years 6G: carbon, stainless, P22 · TWIC · OSHA 30 · NCCER Pipefitting Turnaround and outage specialist - available on 48 hours notice SUMMARY Pipefitter foreman with 17 years in power generation and heavy industrial. Runs crews of 8 to 20 on outages and capital work. Brought the last three outages in on schedule with zero recordable incidents. Known for planning the spool sequence before the crew arrives rather than after. EXPERIENCE Pipefitter Foreman - Allegheny Industrial Contractors, Pittsburgh, PA Jan 2017 - Present - Foreman on boiler, turbine and balance-of-plant piping in coal, gas and waste-to-energy stations - Crews of 8 to 20 fitters and welders on 3- to 6-week outages - High-energy piping to ASME B31.1: main steam, feedwater, reheat - P22 and P91 material handling: preheat, interpass control, PWHT scheduling and documentation with QC - Planned spool delivery and rig sequence for 40+ lifts per outage - Last three outages: on schedule, zero recordables, weld reject rate under 3% crew-wide - Wrote and walked the JSA for every task my crew performed Journeyman Pipefitter - Keystone Mechanical, Pittsburgh, PA May 2009 - Dec 2016 - Process and utility piping in steel, glass and chemical plants - Field fabrication and spool shop rotation - Mentored six apprentices through their fitting years WELD QUALIFICATIONS (ASME Section IX) GTAW + SMAW, 6G, carbon steel - current GTAW, 6G, 304/316 stainless - current GTAW + SMAW, 6G, P22 chrome-moly - current Continuity maintained throughout; WPQRs on file CERTIFICATIONS NCCER Pipefitting Level 4 · TWIC · OSHA 30 Confined space entry and rescue awareness Rigging and signal person · Fall protection competent person First aid / CPR / AED SKILLS ASME B31.1 and B31.3 piping · P&ID and isometric interpretation Crew planning, manpower loading and daily reporting Spool tracking and material control Hydrostatic, pneumatic and service testing JSA writing and toolbox talks Trained on Procore and Bluebeam EDUCATION UA Local 449 apprenticeship - journeyman 2009 Foreman development programme - UA training centre, 2018 REFERENCES Project manager and plant maintenance supervisor on request.
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Your weld tickets are the resume
Put the qualifications in their own block, not buried in a skills list. For a fitter who welds, this section is the resume and the rest is context.
- Code you are qualified to – ASME Section IX for most process and power work.
- Process – GTAW, SMAW, FCAW, and which you use for root versus fill.
- Position – 6G is the one that matters. Say it.
- Material and thickness range – carbon, 304/316 stainless, P11, P22, P91.
- Whether continuity is current, and that you keep the log.
Continuity is the part people forget. A qualification lapses if you have not welded that process in the required period, and a foreman knows that. Saying “current, continuity log available” answers the question before it is asked. The same logic runs through how the welding ticket system works.
ASME Section IX, not AWS D1.1 – and why a foreman checks
This distinction separates people who have done the work from people who have read about it, and it is worth getting right on the page.
- AWS D1.1 is structural steel. Beams, columns, plate.
- ASME Section IX is pressure piping and vessels – which is what pipefitters build.
- ASME B31.1 is power piping; B31.3 is process piping. These are the design codes your work is built to, and naming the right one tells a foreman which world you come from.
A resume that says “AWS certified” for a refinery pipefitting job reads as either a structural welder applying to the wrong job or someone copying phrases. Name the code your qualifications were actually taken under. Structural work has its own conventions, covered in the welder resume sample.
And one structural difference behind that distinction, which is the part most pipefitters get wrong on the page. An ASME Section IX qualification is not a portable card in the way a CDL is. Performance qualifications are held by the employer or contractor whose welding procedure you qualified under, they are tied to that WPS, and they lapse if you go long enough without using the process. Change companies and you will usually test again. That means the useful line is not “ASME IX qualified” on its own, but who you qualified under, to which procedure, in what position and material, and when you last ran it. A pipe foreman reads that and knows whether he is scheduling you a test on Monday or putting you on the spool.
Position and material, not “pipe welding”
“Experienced in pipe welding” tells a foreman nothing he can act on. The three variables he needs are position, material and thickness, and you almost certainly know all three.
6G is the position that opens doors – pipe fixed at 45 degrees, welded all the way round without rotating it. A 6G qualification covers the lower positions, which is why it is the one worth having and worth stating first.
Then material. Carbon is the baseline. Stainless and chrome-moly are what separate rates, because they need TIG, tighter heat control and, on chrome, preheat and post-weld heat treatment. If you hold P11, P22 or P91, that belongs high on page one – those are the tickets that get you called for outages.
Name the systems and the spec
Fitting is not one job. A foreman is trying to work out whether you have built the kind of system he is building.
- Process piping – refinery, chemical, food and pharma. B31.3.
- Power piping – main steam, feedwater, reheat. B31.1, and high-energy work has its own discipline.
- Commercial mechanical – chilled water, hydronic heating, compressed air.
- Medical gas – a separate certification (ASSE 6010) and worth naming if you hold it.
- Fire protection – NFPA 13, again its own world.
Say which drawings you work from too. Isometrics, P&IDs, weld maps and spool sheets are the vocabulary of someone who has been on the job.
Numbers a pipefitter can actually produce
Pipefitting produces harder numbers than almost any other trade, and most resumes use none of them.
- Weld reject rate on RT or UT-inspected joints, ideally against the site average. This is the single strongest line a pipefitter can write.
- Number of inspected joints – it gives the reject rate meaning.
- Pipe sizes and schedules you have worked – “1/2 inch through 24 inch, sch 40 to sch 80”.
- OJT hours if you are an apprentice, against the total required.
- Crew size led, and on what kind of work.
- Outages or turnarounds worked, and whether they finished on schedule.
- Re-work chargebacks – “no field re-work chargebacks in three turnarounds” is a specific claim a superintendent can verify.
If none of that is tracked where you work, ask QC – reject rates exist whether or not anyone tells you yours. The general approach to turning physical work into numbers is in how to quantify physical work on a resume.
Union hours, locals and travel
If you came up through a UA local, say so plainly and give the number. It tells a contractor which hall to call and it is a verifiable fact about you.
- Local number and status – apprentice with hours logged, or journeyman with the year.
- Travel availability. “Available for travel and shutdown work” changes which jobs you are considered for. If you have travelled, say where.
- TWIC if you have it. Refinery and port work is gated on it, and a contractor would rather not wait for you to get one.
- Notice period. Outage work is filled fast; “available on 48 hours notice” is a real advantage.
Non-union work is not a weakness on the page – just be specific about the contractors and the plants instead of the local. What matters either way is the documented hours, which is the same currency as a licensed trade’s hour requirement.
Mistakes specific to pipefitter resumes
- Writing “certified welder” with no code, position or material. It reads as unverified.
- Not saying whether continuity is current. A lapsed ticket is a re-test the contractor has to pay for.
- Claiming AWS on a pressure piping job. Wrong code, wrong world.
- Leaving off TWIC, OSHA 30 and confined space. These are gates, not extras.
- No numbers, in a trade where QC measures everything you do.
- Hiding travel availability when the money is in travel.
- A two-column layout. Application software mangles it – see the ATS friendly resume guide.
If you would rather not write it yourself
Most pipefitters do not need to pay anyone. Take whichever sample above matches your stage, put your own tickets, materials and reject rate in it, and you will have something stronger than a general resume writer would produce – because the persuading here is done by technical detail they cannot supply.
A resume builder is worth using purely for the formatting, since application software wants a plain single-column layout. Paying a writer makes sense mainly if you are moving into superintendent, QC or project management work, where the page has to argue about schedule and cost rather than about welds. If you go that route, Resumeble is a US-based writing service – where the writer sits matters on trades work, because someone unfamiliar with the trade flattens your specifics into generic phrasing. If you do, the code HARDHAT10 takes 10% off.
Weld on structural steel as well as pipe? The welder resume sample covers how to present process, position and material for structural work. Moving toward inspection instead? the welding inspector resume shows what that page looks like.
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