Controls Engineer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Controls Engineer Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Controls Engineer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Controls Engineer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 46% of Controls Engineer job descriptions contained plc as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

plc
46%
siemens
46%
controls engineer
46%
allen bradley
37%
electrical
28%
plc programming
28%
electrical engineering
28%
commissioning engineer
19%
scada
19%
project management
19%
people management
19%
design
19%
control systems
19%
hmi
19%
control panels
19%
fanuc
10%
six sigma
10%
schneider
10%
robots
10%
process improvement
10%
modifications
10%
controls
10%
s7
10%
robotics
10%
motion control
10%
visio
10%
automation
10%
autocad
10%
control engineer
10%
creo
10%
eplan
10%
troubleshooting
10%
scl
10%
rockwell
10%
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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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