Manufacturing Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Manufacturing

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Manufacturing Skills List in Manufacturing

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Manufacturing role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Manufacturing job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 42% of Manufacturing job descriptions contained manufacturing as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

manufacturing
42%
production
30%
operative
13%
assembly
13%
ci
13%
stocks
9%
operator
9%
pfmea
9%
engineer
9%
manufacturing engineer
9%
engineering
9%
manufacturing operator
9%
extrusion operator
9%
manufacturing operative
9%
product lines
9%
product quality
9%
resolve issues
9%
appraisal
9%
lean manufacturing
9%
lean six sigma
5%
purchasing
5%
electronics manufacturing
5%
bom
5%
warehouse
5%
health and safety
5%
assembler
5%
tamworth
5%
staffordshire
5%
stafford
5%
quality
5%
qhse
5%
process improvement
5%
machinist
5%
machining
5%
production build packs
5%
project manufacturing engineer
5%
mechanical engineering
5%
production planning
5%
manufacturing manager
5%
machine operating
5%
machine setting
5%
manual handling
5%
factory/machine experience
5%
good time keeping
5%
reliability
5%
organisational skills
5%
construction industry
5%
kaizen
5%
green belt
5%
black belt
5%
5s
5%
welding
5%
metal fabrication
5%
project management skills
5%
phd
5%
change
5%
additive manufacturing
5%
supervisory experience
5%
machine tools
5%
hand tools
5%
h&s training
5%
cnc programming
5%
cnc manufacturing
5%
packing
5%
operations manager
5%
operations director
5%
nuneaton
5%
maintenance
5%
cnc machine
5%
head of operations
5%
coventry
5%
birmingham
5%
procurement
5%
machine operator
5%
npi
5%
dfmea
5%
8d
5%
six sigma
5%
opex
5%
leadership
5%

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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