Design Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Design Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Design role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Design job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 39% of Design job descriptions contained engineering as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

engineering
39%
utilities
28%
research
28%
project engineering
28%
network design
28%
green projects
28%
environmental
28%
construction
28%
civil engineering
28%
electrical design
23%
schematics
12%
design
12%
iec standards
12%
graduate
12%
cam
12%
cad
12%
eplan
12%
automation
6%
sat
6%
plc
6%
hmi
6%
fat
6%
compliance
6%
audit
6%
schematic capture
6%
prototyping
6%
electronics engineering
6%
electronics design
6%
development
6%
testing
6%
controls
6%
structural design
6%
fault finding
6%
solidworks
6%
mechanical
6%
fabrication
6%
machined components
6%
senior mechanical design engineer
6%
steelwork
6%
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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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