SCAT Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design new test methods, evaluate complex testing, and troubleshoot advanced analytical equipment.
• Perform routine and non‑routine testing to characterize the properties, function, or composition of catalytic materials or materials of catalytic interest.
• Provide direct support with Clean Air and Clean Air Solution teams to ensure SCAT capability meets customer requirements.
• Provide support to the SCAT team and coach within multiple testing areas in the laboratory.
• Guide senior staff with developing best practice testing protocols for lab and equipment.
• Provide technical expertise to quality labs.
• Lead instrument designs including data‑acquisition and control systems.
• Install corrective engineering measures and full testing protocols for all safety systems.
• Lead all Job Safety Analysis activities for CAPEX projects and ensure completion to maintain budgets.

• Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum two years of related work experience.
• Experience in utilizing knowledge of instrumentation and catalysis to solve technical issues, including identifying working FTIR units, performing calibration of Mass Flow Controllers, and using Statistical Process Control applications to monitor instrumentation health and detect deviations.
• Experience utilizing National Instruments LabVIEW control software and I/O systems.
• Experience designing and fabricating reactor systems for characterizing durability and activity of heterogeneous catalysis.
• Experience using complex analytical instrumentation, including FTIR, mass flow, and controllers, to analyze O₂, NO , and other gases during testing for catalytic activity.
• Application of principles of thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and chemical kinetics to evaluate and optimize catalyst performance.
• Project management experience, including driving CAPEX projects to completion.
• Utilization of advanced statistics to drive desired results and quality for advanced analytical equipment.

Full time employment, Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week.

Johnson Matthey Plc is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.