“Engineer” is not a searchable specialism on its own.

These titles can describe overlapping work, but keyword searches treat them as different queries. Put the title used in the vacancy at the top of your resume when it accurately describes your experience.

• Mechanical Engineer
• Electrical Engineer
• Manufacturing Engineer
• Systems Engineer
• Civil Engineer
• Design Engineer
• Process Engineer

Lead with your discipline and the engineering lifecycle stages you owned. Generic problem-solving language will not match a specialist vacancy.

• Engineering designEssential

  Name the system, design stage, constraints, and approval responsibility.

  Also write: detailed design · design development · technical design

• Requirements engineering

  Useful in systems and regulated work when you can show traceability and verification.

  Also write: requirements management · traceability

• Failure mode and effects analysis

  A precise risk-analysis term in manufacturing, product, and reliability engineering.

  Also write: FMEA · DFMEA · PFMEA

• Design verification

  State test method, acceptance criteria, non-conformance, and sign-off boundary.

  Also write: verification and validation · V&V · qualification testing

• Root cause analysis

  Connect the method to a failure, corrective action, and recurrence result.

  Also write: RCA · 8D · 5 Whys

Software is discipline-specific and often filtered exactly. Name versions or modules only when they materially affected the work.

• AutoCAD

  State 2D or 3D use and the drawing, layout, or documentation owned.

  Also write: Autodesk AutoCAD

• SolidWorks

  Relevant to mechanical design when connected to assemblies, drawings, simulation, or release.

  Also write: SolidWorks CAD

• MATLAB

  Useful for modelling, control, analysis, and automation when the application is named.

  Also write: Simulink

• ANSYS

  A specialist filter for simulation; state structural, thermal, fluid, or electromagnetic analysis.

  Also write: FEA · CFD

• Siemens Teamcenter

  Signals product-lifecycle and controlled engineering data experience.

  Also write: PLM · Windchill

Professional status and safety credentials are market- and discipline-specific. Write the exact body, grade, and current status.

• Chartered Engineer

  A recognised UK professional registration. Use CEng only when formally awarded.

  Also write: CEng · Engineering Council

• Incorporated Engineer

  A recognised professional registration for applied engineering responsibility.

  Also write: IEng

• Engineering degree

  State discipline, accreditation, institution, and classification where relevant.

  Also write: BEng · MEng · MSc Engineering

• NEBOSH

  Relevant where engineering leadership includes occupational safety responsibility.

  Also write: NEBOSH General Certificate

Technical judgement becomes credible through controlled change, documented decisions, supplier challenge, and safe delivery.

• Technical documentation

  Name drawings, specifications, calculations, test reports, or release packs.

  Also write: engineering drawings · technical specifications

• Change control

  Show impact assessment, approval, configuration, and implementation.

  Also write: engineering change · ECR · ECO

• Supplier technical management

  Include specifications, design reviews, non-conformance, and acceptance.

  Also write: supplier quality · vendor engineering

• Continuous improvement

  State the process measure, engineering change, and sustained result.

  Also write: Lean engineering · Kaizen

The figures below are examples. Replace them with your own evidence—the structure is reusable, the content is not.

• Innovative problem solver

  Use one technical decision, constraint, verification method, and result.

• Every engineering package seen at university

  Prioritise tools used in substantial design, analysis, or production work.

• Confidential drawings as images

  Protect intellectual property and keep ATS-readable evidence in text.

• Improved efficiency with no unit

  Name cycle time, scrap, energy, weight, cost, reliability, or another engineering measure.