Glazier Resume Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is for a commercial glazier with about ten years: residential and shower work first, then storefront, now curtain wall and lead hand duties. The person and companies are made up. Keep the structure and put your own systems, square footage and tickets in.

Glazing companies are small enough that a foreman or the owner reads your resume directly. They are looking for four answers.

• Which systems. Storefront and curtain wall are the money work. Naming the manufacturers you have installed (Kawneer, YKK AP, Oldcastle, Tubelite, EFCO) shows you have been on real jobs.
• Can you measure. Field measuring for fabrication is where money is lost. A rework or remake percentage on your resume is unusual and it works.
• Height and lifting. Boom lift, scissor lift, swing stage, crane setting, vacuum lifter. If you are comfortable at 90 feet, say so, because plenty of glaziers are not.
• Breakage and callbacks. Glass is expensive and leaks are worse. A breakage rate or a no-callback stretch is proof you slow down at the right moments.

“Anyone can say they install glass. What I want to know is whether you can pull a field measure that fabrication can build to, and whether you can set a 1,200 pound unit off a lifter without putting it into the mullion. Two numbers on a resume, remake rate and breakage, and I already know how you work.”

Three or four lines. Years, the kind of glazing, a volume or a size, then your tickets. If you have less than a year, write an objective and put your training and your willingness to work at height in it.

Take the duties from a glazier job posting and turn each one into something measurable. The right side is what gets read.

Keep it to things you can be handed on a job site. Systems, glass types, tools, then the physical side.

Systems and glass:

• Stick-built and unitized curtain wall
• Aluminum storefront and entrance systems (Kawneer, YKK AP, Tubelite, EFCO)
• Window wall, ribbon window and punched openings
• Insulated glass units, tempered, laminated, low-e and spandrel glass
• Interior glass: partitions, railings, mirrors, shower enclosures
• Skylights, canopies and sloped glazing
• Fire-rated glass and hollow metal frame glazing

Hands and tools:

• Glass cutting, seaming, edging and hole drilling
• Glass vacuum lifter, suction cups, glass dollies and A-frames
• Structural and weather silicone, wet and dry glazing, gaskets, setting blocks
• Caulk gun, backer rod, tooling a clean joint
• Door hardware: closers, pivots, panic devices, thresholds, locks
• Field measuring, templating, shop drawing and elevation reading
• Boom and scissor lifts, swing stage, scaffold, crane rigging and signals
• AAMA field water testing and leak tracing

The physical facts worth stating:

• Comfortable working at height, tied off, in wind and cold
• Lifting and carrying glass with a partner all day, 75 lb and up
• Loading a glass rack correctly so nothing breaks in transit
• Working in occupied buildings and clean site behavior in retail spaces
• On-call rotation for board-up and emergency reglaze

Glazing has no single national license for the individual worker in the US, so what counts is your apprenticeship, your safety training and, in a few states, a contractor license held by the company.

• Apprenticeship. A four-year glaziers apprenticeship, union or open shop, is the strongest credential on a glazier resume. List the program length and the year you reached journey level.
• OSHA 10 or 30 Hour Construction Outreach card. The 30 is expected for lead hands and foremen.
• MEWP operator training to ANSI A92.24 for boom and scissor lifts, plus a separate swing stage or suspended scaffold training if you use one.
• Qualified rigger and qualified signal person under OSHA subpart CC, if you hook glass to a crane.
• Forklift and telehandler operator training under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178.
• Fall protection, silica awareness and scaffold user training.
• First aid and CPR from the American Red Cross or American Heart Association.
• AGMT (Architectural Glass and Metal Technician) certification, if you have taken the exam. It is the main individual glazier certification in the North American market.

Licensing varies by state and it belongs to the company, not usually to the worker. California, for example, has a C-17 Glazing contractor license classification through the state licensing board, and some other states and cities have their own registration rules. If you plan to work for yourself, check your state's requirements before you claim anything on a resume. As an employee, the honest line is that you work under your employer's license.

• One page. Glazing foremen do not read two.
• No photo, no date of birth. If you are working from a glazier CV template made for the UK or Australia, take those out.
• Put a Certifications block right under the summary. Lift and rigging tickets are the first thing an estimator checks before putting you on a high-rise job.
• List the systems you have installed by manufacturer where you can. It is the closest thing this trade has to a keyword.
• Say whether you have your own hand tools and a truck, if you are applying to a small service shop.

Mirror the posting: glazier, glazing, storefront, curtain wall, window wall, IGU, tempered, laminated, spandrel, structural silicone, wet glaze, dry glaze, setting blocks, field measure, shop drawings, board-up, reglaze, MEWP, swing stage, rigging. If the ad says "glazing technician" or "glass installer", use their title in your headline once, because that is what their tracking system will search for.