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Civil engineer CV template

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Dilan Wickramasinghe

Chartered Civil Engineer · C.Eng, MIESL

Colombo, Sri Lanka+94 77 000 0000dilan@example.lklinkedin.com/in/example

Profile

Chartered civil engineer with twelve years on commercial, residential and highway projects. Most recently site lead on a LKR 2.8bn mixed-use development delivered two months ahead of programme, with a safety record of 1.2 million hours without a lost-time injury.

Experience

Site Lead Engineer

2021 – Present

Tier-one contractor · Colombo

  • Lead a 40-person site team on a LKR 2.8bn, 22-storey mixed-use development, two months ahead of programme.
  • Redesigned the piling approach after ground surveys, saving LKR 94m against the tendered method.
  • Achieved 1.2 million hours without a lost-time injury through daily risk briefings and permit discipline.

Project Engineer

2017 – 2021

Highway consultancy · Southern Province

  • Supervised 18 km of expressway earthworks and drainage under FIDIC conditions.
  • Managed variation claims worth LKR 310m, resolving all without dispute.
  • Introduced drone surveys, cutting monthly progress-measurement time by 60%.

Graduate / Site Engineer

2013 – 2017

Building contractor · Kandy

  • Setting out, quality control and subcontractor coordination on four residential and school projects.

Key projects

  • Mixed-use tower, Colombo 02 — LKR 2.8bn22 storeys, two basements; site lead from piling to handover.
  • Southern Expressway extension — LKR 310m packageEarthworks, culverts and drainage across 18 km of new carriageway.

Core skills

Engineering
Structural design review · Geotechnics · Temporary works · Quantity surveying
Delivery
FIDIC contracts · Primavera P6 · Cost control · HSE management
Software
AutoCAD · Civil 3D · ETABS · MS Project

Education

BSc Eng (Hons) Civil Engineering

University of Peradeniya · 2013

MSc Construction Project Management

University of Moratuwa · 2019

Certifications

  • Chartered Engineer, IESL (2018)
  • NEBOSH International General Certificate

Languages

English — professional · Sinhala — native

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How an applicant tracking system reads this CV

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ATS-friendly

9 checks passed · 1 to improve

An estimate based on how common ATS systems (Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, Lever) parse CVs.

What an ATS identifies

Name
Found: Dilan Wickramasinghe
Email
Found: dilan@example.lk
Phone
Found: +94 77 000 0000
Location
Found: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Links
Found: linkedin.com/in/example
Job title
Found: Chartered Civil Engineer · C.Eng, MIESL
Skills
Found: 12: Structural design review, Geotechnics, Temporary works, Quantity surveying, FIDIC contracts, Primavera P6, Cost control, HSE management…
Education
Found: BSc Eng (Hons) Civil Engineering (2013) · MSc Construction Project Management (2019)

Work history as parsed

  • Site Lead Engineer at Tier-one contractor2021 – Present
  • Project Engineer at Highway consultancy2017 – 2021
  • Graduate / Site Engineer at Building contractor2013 – 2017

Profile / Summary section not foundExperience section not foundEducation section not foundSkills section not foundProjects section not foundCertifications section not foundLanguages section not found

ATS-friendliness checks

  • Passed: Contact details can be readEmail and phone are plain text in a recognisable format.
  • Problem: Standard section headingsMissing or unrecognised: Experience, Education, Skills. Use these exact words as headings.
  • Passed: Custom section name“Key projects” is a heading ATS parsers understand.
  • Passed: Dates an ATS can parseEvery role has dates in a standard format, so your years of experience can be calculated.
  • Passed: Most recent role firstRoles are in reverse-chronological order, the order ATS systems and recruiters expect.
  • Passed: Achievements as bullet points7 bullet points, each short enough to scan.
  • Passed: Plain characters onlyNo emoji, icon fonts or special symbols that could turn into gibberish.
  • Passed: Reading orderThe template is a single column underneath. Sidebars are read after the main column, never mixed into it.
  • Passed: Links written out in fullLinks are shown as readable addresses (so ATS systems read them) and are clickable in the PDF.
  • Passed: Length1 page, within the one-to-two pages most recruiters expect.
  • Note: File formatBoth downloads are ATS-readable: the PDF keeps real, selectable text, and the Word file uses real headings and bullet lists.
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