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Industrial Designer résumé example — mid level, written for United Kingdom, set in the Portrait design
Industrial Designer résumé example, in the Portrait design

Appliances to medical hardware, measured in first-use success, tooling spend and deficiency-free submissions.

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Nadia Farrow — Industrial Designer

Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Industrial designer with seven years on consumer appliances and respiratory devices, from foam models through to tooling sign-off. Redesigned an inhaler grip that raised correct first use from 61% to 92% in a 240-patient trial. Writes the human-factors evidence that goes into the technical file rather than handing it to someone else.

Experience

Industrial Designer, Brackenhill Medical · November 2022 – present

Hardware team of twelve designing respiratory devices for the NHS and two European distributors.

  • Redesigned the inhaler grip and dose window around a one-handed action; correct first use rose from 61% to 92% across a 240-patient usability trial.
  • Took a nebuliser housing from concept to tooling sign-off in nine months and held unit cost at £14.20 against a £16 target by consolidating seven mouldings into three.
  • Brought weekly foam and printed models into the review cycle, cutting late tooling changes from an average of five per programme to one.
  • Writes the human-factors evidence in the technical file; the last two submissions cleared review without a deficiency letter.

Product Designer, Wrenfield Appliances · March 2020 – October 2022

  • Designed a four-model kettle range sharing one base moulding, which cut tooling spend across the range by £180,000.
  • Replaced a painted finish with an in-mould texture after 40 abrasion tests, removing a paint line and 11% of the unit cost.
  • Ran a teardown programme across 22 rival products and turned it into the written brief that shaped the following year’s range.

Junior Industrial Designer, Gantry Design Consultancy · July 2019 – February 2020

  • Modelled and rendered 30 concepts across nine client briefs; five reached production within two years.
  • Built the material and finish library of 260 samples, which took about a week out of the specification stage of every project after it.

Education

  • BSc (Hons) Industrial Design and Technology · Loughborough University · September 2015 – June 2019

Skills

  • Design: Concept development, CMF specification, Human factors, Design for manufacture, Sketching and rendering
  • Engineering: SolidWorks, Class A surfacing, Tolerance stack-up, Injection moulding, Tooling sign-off
  • Prototyping: Foam and CNC models, SLA and FDM printing, Silicone moulding, Abrasion and drop testing
  • Standards: IEC 62366-1, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, Technical file authoring

Certifications

  • IEC 62366-1 Usability Engineering for Medical Devices — BSI

Why this Industrial Designer résumé works

  • User outcomes are measured in a trial: correct first use of the inhaler grip from 61% to 92% across 240 patients, which is the evidence a medical device employer needs.
  • Commercial results sit beside design: a unit cost of £14.20 against a £16 target, and £180,000 of tooling saved on the kettle range by sharing one base moulding.
  • Regulatory competence is specific: human-factors evidence written for the technical file, the IEC 62366-1 certificate, and two submissions without a deficiency letter.
  • A UK registered design for the one-handed inhaler grip shows the work at Brackenhill Medical was original enough to protect, which few mid-level designers can point to.

Industrial Designer résumé: common questions

Should an industrial designer CV include a portfolio?

Yes. Link it in the header. On the CV itself, give each project a measurable result, such as usability, unit cost or tooling spend, so the portfolio and CV support each other.

What skills should an industrial designer CV list?

Design (concept, CMF, human factors), engineering (SolidWorks, surfacing, injection moulding, tooling), prototyping methods and any standards you work to, such as ISO 13485 for medical devices.

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