Engineer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Engineer Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Engineer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Engineer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 34% of Engineer job descriptions contained engineering as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

engineering
34%
marine engineering
17%
solidworks
17%
electrical engineering
17%
maintenance
17%
cad
17%
communication skills
9%
industrial engineering
9%
manufacturing engineering
9%
production engineering
9%
naval architecture
9%
software engineering
9%
electronic engineering
9%
mechanical engineering
9%
mod
9%
3d modeling
9%
career development
9%
medical imaging
9%
continuous improvement
9%
manufacturing
9%
project engineering
9%
design development
9%
engineering design
9%
scientific applications
9%
uhv
9%
cam
9%
design engineer
9%
mechanical design engineer
9%
axminster
9%
construction
9%
data centre
9%
electrical
9%
energy
9%
engineer
9%
mechanical
9%
structural
9%
sweden
9%
abaqus
9%
cae
9%
configuration engineer
9%
engineering experience
9%
pcb
9%
devon
9%
digital circuit design
9%
digital signal processing
9%
dsp
9%
electronics
9%
embedded
9%
embedded c
9%
imaging
9%
matlab
9%
medical
9%
architectural
9%
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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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