Design Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Design Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Design role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Design job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 70% of Design job descriptions contained design as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

design
70%
mechanical design engineer
24%
mechanical
24%
sat
24%
plc
24%
hmi
24%
fat
24%
manager
24%
pneumatic
24%
glazing
16%
new-builds
16%
projects
16%
specialist
16%
construction
16%
commercial
16%
cad
16%
bespoke
16%
architecture
16%
process engineer
16%
process
16%
wolverhampton
16%
cladding
16%
generator
16%
hydraulic
16%
npi projects
16%
tolerances
16%
mechanical design
16%
hydrogen
16%
chp
16%
efw
16%
engineer
16%
gas
16%
cadstar
8%
vault
8%
high voltage
8%
siemens
8%
senior design engineer
8%
project engineer
8%
plm
8%
leader
8%
inventor
8%
drawings
8%
design manager
8%
design lead
8%
design engineer
8%
autocad
8%
structural engineering
8%
steel design
8%
structural analysis
8%
steel
8%
fabrication
8%
hydraulics
8%
façade
8%
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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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