Principal Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Principal Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Principal role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Principal job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 41% of Principal job descriptions contained cieem as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

cieem
41%
environment
41%
pea
41%
report writing
41%
assistant ecologist
32%
design
32%
principal ecologist
32%
northampton
28%
electronics
19%
hardware
19%
electronic
14%
new product development
14%
continuous improvement
14%
ci
14%
npd
14%
npi
14%
rfi
14%
altium
14%
bom
14%
layout
14%
rf
14%
man management
10%
structural engineering
10%
ecologist
10%
ecology
10%
embedded software
10%
ground investigation
5%
bristol
5%
vectorworks
5%
south wales
5%
landscape architect
5%
landscape
5%
designer
5%
chartered
5%
cardiff
5%
cad
5%
site investigation
5%
south west
5%
geotechnical
5%
geo-environmental
5%
contaminated land
5%
analogue
5%
digital
5%
vhdl
5%
embedded linux
5%
pcb
5%
power
5%
scotland
5%
c++
5%
dsp
5%
fpga
5%
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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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