At Johnson Matthey, your work will matter. As a SE & Prototype Samples Manager , you’ll join a world leader in platinum group metals with over 200 years of history and innovation. You’ll help tackle the world’s biggest challenges - cutting emissions, powering modern society and enhancing lives - as we continue to apply, refine and recycle metals that matter, for a healthier and more resilient future.

The role : As a SE & Prototype Samples Manager, you will help drive our goals by:

- Safety - embeds a high standard safety culture throughout the plant. Striving for the continuous improvement of safety standards and ensuring all employees are engaged and responsible for their own and each other’s safety
- Quality - ensures all functional areas within the plant achieve or exceed quality standards. Ensures non-conformance is investigated and lessons learnt embedded to drive quality improvements
- Delivery - responsible for providing quality products to our customers on time through the efficient and safe use of resources
- Cost - establishes budgets and ensure delivery at or below cost targets.
- People
- Ensures effective & efficient resource allocation to achieve the samples plan. Ensures all teams have the right skills mix and that development/ training plans are in place for future requirements. Provides on-going coaching to the manufacturing teams. Develops a pipeline for, and is an exporter of talent to the business
- D rives a culture of customer focus and p ersonal a c countability a cross the te a m b y role-mo d elli n g b eh a viors, reinforcing t h e p ositive be haviors within the team and ensuring r o b ust p erfo r mance management in p l ace for team mem b e rs.
- D isci p lin e d e xecution of manufacturing p roces s es r elat e d to man (stan d ard work), mate r ial ( p lannin g, flow, inventory),



machine ( T P M and O. E. E)
- P rototy p e Sa m p l e s g ro u p function d es i g n, current state im p rov e ments in p er f ormance, fu t ure state d e s i g n and capacity/inv e stment p lan n in g, in conj u nction with the commerc i al, technolo g y and en g in e ering teams.
- Ensuring that the customer is the key stake h ol d er d r iving all im p r ovement act i viti e s. Co m municating d i rectly with customers on prototype samples performance status where appropriate.
- P roactive col l aboration, communication and networking with all key stakehol d ers within te c hnolo g y, commercial, o p erations, q uality and finance.
- Acts as role model and set high expectations for JM Values, Ethics and compliance.
- Ensures a positive external image is maintained of the plant in the community
- Ensures the site has a business impact analysis and a corresponding business continuity plan which addresses all site-based points of potential failure, be that mechanical, natural disaster, supply chain disruption etc.
- T o take on any other d uti e s which are within the em p loyee’s sk i lls and abil i t i es whenever reasonably instructe d.
- Accountable for end-to-end governance of Prototype Samples operations, ensuring consistency, compliance, traceability, and efficient execution of all sample-related activities.
- Owns and maintains the PSB RASIC model,



ensuring clear accountability and interfaces between Product Development, Application Engineering, Sustaining Engineering, Process Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations.
- Ensures all sample manufacturing, importing, exporting, and compliance activities are reviewed, coordinated, and executed through the PSB organization.
- Acts as the primary escalation point for sample movement, scale-up readiness, industrialization issues, and transition-to-production decisions.

Scale-Up & Technology Transfer :

- Lead product scale-up and industrialisation with Sustaining Engineering.
- Ensure process readiness, scalability, manufacturability, and compliance.
- Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks.
- Capture and transfer technical knowledge and documentation.
- Support technology transfer and commissioning of recent products.

Governance & Cross-Functional Leadership :

- Lead and coordinate PSB and Sustaining Engineering activities.
- Drive collaboration across R&D;, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Commercial teams.
- Oversee prototype manufacturing and production transition decisions.
- Establish governance for prioritisation, resource allocation, and escalation.

Operational Transition & Capacity Management :

- Manage operational transition and aftermarket support.
- Develop sample manufacturing and capacity strategies.
- Define future prototype manufacturing operating models.
- Support capacity planning, investment, and facility development.

Key skills that will help you succeed in this role : Essential

- Degree in Engineering, Technical, or Business discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Significant experience in technical/manufacturing environments with a proven track recor

📌 Se & Prototype Samples Manager (Bawal)
🏢 Johnson Matthey
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