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, 60% of Design job descriptions contained design as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

design
60%
pneumatic
20%
manager
20%
mechanical
20%
fat
20%
hmi
20%
sat
20%
plc
20%
new-builds
14%
mechanical design engineer
14%
glazing
14%
construction
14%
design engineer
14%
commercial
14%
cladding
14%
architecture
14%
cad
14%
hydraulic
14%
npi projects
14%
projects
14%
tolerances
14%
bespoke
14%
mechanical design
14%
specialist
14%
wolverhampton
14%
design manager
14%
fabrication
14%
steel
14%
steelwork
14%
hydrogen
7%
vault
7%
process
7%
process engineer
7%
siemens
7%
senior design engineer
7%
project engineer
7%
plm
7%
leader
7%
inventor
7%
drawings
7%
design lead
7%
autocad
7%
high voltage
7%
cadstar
7%
structural engineering
7%
steel design
7%
structural analysis
7%
site survey
7%
design coordinator
7%
draughtsman
7%
project management
7%
structural steel
7%
detailer
7%
lead designer
7%
tekla
7%
assemblies
7%
engineering
7%
material handling
7%
process equipment
7%
scanning
7%
sheet metal
7%
3d modelling
7%
metalwork
7%
generator
7%
solidworks
7%
structural
7%
weldments
7%
autodesk inventor
7%
cad engineer
7%
cad technician
7%
design technician
7%
ilogic
7%
hydraulics
7%
façade
7%
chp
7%
efw
7%
engineer
7%
gas
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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