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, 45% of Engineer job descriptions contained engineering as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

engineering
45%
electrical engineering
34%
marine engineering
23%
manufacturing
23%
maintenance
23%
solidworks
23%
diamonds
12%
engineering design
12%
hydraulics
12%
plc
12%
project engineering
12%
scientific applications
12%
uhv
12%
design drawings
12%
development engineer
12%
communication skills
12%
drawings
12%
electrical bias
12%
laboratory
12%
pneumatics
12%
servo drives
12%
silicon
12%
cam
12%
manufacturing engineering
12%
production engineering
12%
naval architecture
12%
software engineering
12%
electronic engineering
12%
mechanical engineering
12%
mod
12%
cad
12%
design development
12%
design engineer
12%
mechanical design engineer
12%
3d modeling
12%
career development
12%
industrial engineering
12%
continuous improvement
12%
controls
12%
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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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