Design Engineer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Design Engineer Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Design Engineer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Design Engineer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 30% of Design Engineer job descriptions contained electrical design as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

electrical design
30%
eplan
20%
iec standards
20%
schematics
20%
engineering
20%
automation
10%
testing
10%
controls
10%
hmi
10%
plc
10%
sat
10%
fat
10%
development
10%
electronics design
10%
electronics engineering
10%
prototyping
10%
schematic capture
10%
fault finding
10%
solidworks
10%
mechanical
10%
design
10%
structural design
10%
steelwork
10%
senior mechanical design engineer
10%
machined components
10%
fabrication
10%
graduate
10%
cam
10%
cad
10%
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