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, 50% of Engineer job descriptions contained engineering as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

engineering
50%
electrical engineering
38%
marine engineering
25%
maintenance
25%
manufacturing
25%
solidworks
25%
hydraulics
13%
silicon
13%
plc
13%
project engineering
13%
scientific applications
13%
uhv
13%
design drawings
13%
development engineer
13%
diamonds
13%
drawings
13%
electrical bias
13%
laboratory
13%
pneumatics
13%
servo drives
13%
engineering design
13%
design development
13%
controls
13%
continuous improvement
13%
communication skills
13%
career development
13%
3d modeling
13%
mechanical design engineer
13%
design engineer
13%
cam
13%
cad
13%
mod
13%
mechanical engineering
13%
electronic engineering
13%
software engineering
13%
naval architecture
13%
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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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