Aerospace Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Aerospace Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Aerospace role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Aerospace job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 54% of Aerospace job descriptions contained aerospace as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

aerospace
54%
defence
34%
engineer
34%
aircraft
20%
military
20%
mod
20%
solidworks
20%
design
14%
essex
14%
electrical design
14%
b1 engineer
14%
npi
14%
autocad
14%
stansted
14%
aeronautical engineer
14%
aerospace engineer
14%
aircraft engineer
14%
wales
14%
cnc
14%
cad
14%
raf
14%
aviation
14%
engineering
14%
drone
7%
2d
7%
stroud
7%
3d
7%
bridgend
7%
xyx proto trak
7%
programmer
7%
siemens
7%
setting
7%
milling
7%
haas
7%
grinding
7%
gloucestershire
7%
gloucester
7%
costing
7%
steel
7%
sheet metal
7%
quotations
7%
pricing
7%
fabrication
7%
estimator
7%
aluminium
7%
manufacturing
7%
estimating
7%
estimates
7%
cardiff
7%
senior manufacturing engineer
7%
programming
7%
birmingham
7%
models
7%
modelling
7%
eplan
7%
electronics
7%
electrics
7%
electrical
7%
cnc machining
7%
sc
7%
maintenance
7%
glasgow
7%
aeronautical
7%
workshops
7%
easa
7%
precision engineering
7%
manufacturing engineer
7%
engineering manager
7%
scotland
7%
cad/cam
7%
as9100
7%
isle of anglesey
7%
bangor
7%
systems
7%
quality technician
7%
inspector
7%
edm
7%
cmm
7%
cnc programming
7%
cnc operator
7%
cnc milling
7%
cnc machinist
7%
marine
7%
ex-navy
7%
electrical engineer
7%
electrical design engineer
7%
dursley
7%
chester
7%
catia
7%
broughton
7%
automotive
7%
team leader
7%
p66
7%
lae
7%
b1.2 global leader
7%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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