Engineering Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Engineering Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Engineering role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Engineering job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 44% of Engineering job descriptions contained engineering as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

engineering
44%
engineer
19%
engineering manager
19%
manufacturing
19%
mechanical engineering
13%
engineering management
13%
contaminated land
13%
design engineer
13%
geo environmental
13%
design manager
13%
geology
13%
district heating
13%
low carbon
13%
net zero
13%
ground investigation
13%
principal engineer
13%
senior engineer
13%
technical manager
13%
management
13%
welding
7%
administrating
7%
construction
7%
aerospace
7%
administrator
7%
principal mechanical design engineer
7%
derby
7%
fmcg
7%
estimating
7%
coordinating
7%
principal mechanical engineer
7%
design
7%
hydraulics
7%
estimator
7%
coordinator
7%
electrical engineering
7%
manchester
7%
crewe
7%
surveyor
7%
engineering coordinator
7%
engineering assistant
7%
excel
7%
greenbelt
7%
junior engineer
7%
microsoft
7%
lean
7%
liverpool
7%
sales coordinator
7%
long eaton
7%
maintenance engineer
7%
geoscience
7%
service coordinator
7%
loughborough
7%
mechanical engineer
7%
geotechnical
7%
service manager
7%
middlewich
7%
technical
7%
nottingham
7%
north west
7%
technical administrator
7%
project
7%
pneumatics
7%
automation
7%
remediation
7%
smed
7%
stoke on trent
7%
food manufacturing
7%
leadership
7%
risk assessment
7%
structural
7%
trainee engineer
7%
food production
7%
solidworks
7%
burton upon trent
7%
continuous improvement
7%
warrington
7%
mechanical design
7%
civil
7%
electro-mechanical
7%
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