Civil Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

Share

Civil Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Civil role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Civil job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 72% of Civil job descriptions contained civil engineer as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

civil engineer
72%
structural engineer
62%
bridge engineer
53%
principal structural engineer
53%
senior structural engineer
53%
structural cad technician
53%
structural revit technician
53%
associate structural engineer
53%
civil engineering
34%
highways
24%
drainage
20%
structural engineering
20%
civil
20%
infrastructure
15%
bridge engineering
15%
cad
15%
structural
10%
project manager
10%
project engineer
10%
design
10%
construction
10%
bristol
10%
design engineer
5%
leicester
5%
barry
5%
residential
5%
negotiations
5%
communication skills
5%
cdm
5%
belfast
5%
engineering
5%
graduate civil engineer
5%
northern ireland
5%
3d design
5%
engineer
5%
gloucester
5%
civil design engineer
5%
microdrainage
5%
industrial
5%
commercial
5%
taunton
5%
swindon
5%
salisbury
5%
cheltenham
5%
bath
5%
wales
5%
swansea
5%
cardiff
5%
newport
5%
Export

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.

Including the right keywords in your CV will help you get past Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and win more job interviews from employers and recruiters.


Do you want
more job interviews?

Improve your CV's success rate by using these Civil skills and keywords or scan your CV to get a personalised score.