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

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Civil Engineer Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Civil Engineer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Civil Engineer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 34% of Civil Engineer job descriptions contained civil engineer as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

civil engineer
34%
engineering
28%
civil
28%
3d
28%
autocad
28%
structural
23%
technical
17%
civil engineering
17%
drainage
17%
highway design
17%
pds
17%
technician
17%
solidworks
17%
project
17%
inventor
17%
industrial
17%
engineer
17%
junior
17%
construction
17%
2d
17%
cad
17%
graduate
17%
leamington spa
12%
structural engineer
12%
birmingham
12%
drafting
12%
civil engineers
12%
dmrb
12%
bromsgrove
12%
worcester
12%
stratford-upon-avon
12%
redditch
12%
structural design engineer
6%
design engineering
6%
civils
6%
commercial
6%
consultancy
6%
design
6%
domestic
6%
geotechnical
6%
residential
6%
blast damage
6%
computational modelling
6%
transport engineer
6%
senior
6%
construction manager
6%
environmental engineer
6%
geotechnical engineer
6%
highway engineer
6%
infrastructure engineer
6%
project engineer
6%
rail engineer
6%
surveyor
6%
design engineer
6%
cheadle
6%
congleton
6%
crewe
6%
leek
6%
stoke-on-trent
6%
belfast
6%
northern ireland
6%
senior civil engineer
6%
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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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