Nathan Puxty

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Lean Six Sigma / Design Assurance / Project Manager

Status: Open for opportunities
Location: Edinburgh
Basic salary: £60p/hour
Exp. years: 15 years
Specialisms: DHF remediation, ISO 14971, MDR/IVDR, Design Assurance, V&V, Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt
Job Type: Contract
Availability: 03/04/2023
Overview:

Based in Stirling, Scotland but will travel UK wide (hybrid)
£55-65 p/hour
Outside IR35
Available from 3rd April 2023

A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PRINCE2 and Agile (Project Management) Practitioner and Scrum Master with more than 15 years post-graduate experience in the GMP pharmaceutical/medical device industry.  

Experience in both QC, as an Analytical Chemist working on the analysis of raw materials, manufacturing intermediates, finished samples and stability samples in R&D developing analytical method and Validating (URS/IQ/OQ/PQ) equipment. After this, as a Senior Scientist with a greater scope and range of work, he became a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. After this he became a PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Manager, followed by Agile Project Management and Scrum.

More recently worked as a contract Design Engineer on a Remediation Project going through Design History Files of Medical Device Products for the implementation of MDR/IVDR audit by regulatory authorities to ISO 13485 and ISO 14971. Also qualified as an ISO13485 Internal Auditor.

Skills Used:

  • ISO 13485 and ISO 14971
  • MDD 93/42/EEC and MDR 2017/745
  • Minitab, Design of Experiments, and ad hoc Statistical Support for projects (data analysis and interpretation).
  • Microsoft Office Suite including Project and Visio.
  • Leading Process Mapping Exercises.
  • SOP and documentation update.
  • FMEA
  • Writing Design Implementation Instructions I.e.

• User Need Assessments & Documentation

• Product Use Specification writing

• Design Transfer Report

• Design and Development Planning

• Design and Development Phase reviews,

• Design Input/Output Documents,

• Assessing Hazard Analysis Reports

• User Error Reporting,

• Design Control Documents

• Verification Plans and Reports

• Validation Plans and Reports

• Applicable Standards Review

• Post Market Surveillance Plan

• Hosting Design Review/Sign Off meetings

• Assessing Clinical Evaluation Reports

• Stability and Transit Trial Planning,

• Risk Assessment / Management Reporting/ Residual Risk Report

• Benchmark Testing

• Technical Drawing Review

 

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