Automotive Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Automotive Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Automotive role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Automotive job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 61% of Automotive job descriptions contained automotive as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

automotive
61%
parts
27%
sales
27%
mechanical
22%
engineer
22%
development
22%
advisor
18%
mechanic
18%
parts advisor
18%
cad
18%
auto
14%
electrical
14%
maintenance
14%
vehicle
14%
engineering
14%
customer service
14%
garage
14%
leeds
14%
coventry
14%
design
14%
cars
9%
radio
9%
repairs
9%
vehicles
9%
manager
9%
parts supervisor
9%
barnsley
9%
diagnostics
9%
master technician
9%
vehicle technician
9%
birmingham
9%
cad technician
9%
car
9%
catia
9%
design engineer
9%
electric
9%
ev
9%
leamington
9%
mechanical design
9%
r&d
9%
renewables
9%
solihull
9%
bde
9%
bdm
9%
business development executive
9%
business development manager
9%
client
9%
customer
9%
marketing
9%
training
9%
solidworks
9%
paint
5%
polishing
5%
prototype
5%
buyer
5%
buying
5%
international trade
5%
purchase
5%
purchasing
5%
suppliers
5%
supply chain
5%
technical
5%
wholesalers
5%
fault finding
5%
field
5%
field service
5%
field service engineer
5%
forklift
5%
london
5%
reading
5%
repair
5%
brighton
5%
oxford
5%
southampton
5%
automation engineer
5%
commissioning engineer
5%
test engineer
5%
project planner
5%
external
5%
aftersales
5%
cambridge
5%
cambridgeshire
5%
ely
5%
internal
5%
newmarket
5%
soham
5%
thetford
5%
cyber
5%
cyber security
5%
security
5%
security engineer
5%
compliance
5%
project planning
5%
quality control
5%
vehicle compliance
5%
assembler
5%
aviation
5%
engines
5%
fitter
5%
gearboxes
5%
mechanical assembler
5%
mechanical fitter
5%
powertrains
5%
royal leamington spa
5%
test rig
5%
degree
5%
laser alignment equipment
5%
mechanical design engineer
5%
aluminium
5%
electronic
5%
fab
5%
glasgow
5%
inventor
5%
johnstone
5%
manufacturing
5%
metal
5%
product
5%
production
5%
scotland
5%
sheet
5%
technician
5%
truck
5%
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