Production Planner and Scheduler

Aspen is a technology leader in sustainability and electrification solutions. The Company's aerogel technology enables its customers and partners to achieve their own objectives around the global megatrends of resource efficiency, e-mobility, and clean energy. Aspen's Pyro Thin products enable solutions to thermal runaway challenges within the electric vehicle ("EV") market. The Company's Cryogel and Pyrogel products are valued by the world's largest energy infrastructure companies.

Aspen's strategy is to partner with world-class industry leaders to leverage its Aerogel Technology Platform into additional high-value markets. Aspen is headquartered in Northborough, Mass.

At Aspen, our values reflect who we are and how we work both with each other and our customers, suppliers, and communities. They shape our interactions, guide our decisions, and inspire us to bring our best. Whether collaborating internally or externally, our values drive us to make a meaningful impact within Aspen and in all our relationships.

• We Do the Right Thing
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The Production Planner / Scheduler owns the production schedule for the East Providence aerogel facility and is the plant's link between demand and capacity. The role converts demand and inventory signals into a sequenced, capacity-feasible plan of record across Casting, Extraction, Ovens, Slitters, and Label/Packaging, and drives it on the floor through order release, labeling, and real-time re-prioritization. It also carries the forward view - modeling the demand outlook against demonstrated capacity and telling Operations whether we can accommodate it as staffed and equipped, and what must change if we cannot.

Measured by schedule attainment, throughput at the constraint, the quality of that capacity guidance, and the accuracy of data in Microsoft Dynamics 365.

• Build and maintain the daily, weekly, and rolling multi-week schedule from demand, forecast, safety stock, and inventory position, sequencing every stage to demonstrated capacity.
• Schedule to the constraint: protect the bottleneck and optimize for changeover, family and thickness grouping, oven cure cycles, slitter nesting, and lot continuity.
• Balance the plan against material availability, WIP holds, equipment and tooling, maintenance windows, and staffing by shift.

• Generate and issue labels tied to the correct order, part, lot, quantity, and revision; control reprints and voids with full traceability.
• Release only work that is materially available and sequenced; keep labels and travelers matched to the schedule and the WIP present and verify label and quantity at close-out.
• Partner with Quality on lot traceability, CoA linkage, customer-specific labeling, and segregation of held or non-conforming material.

• Translate the Supply Chain demand signal into a capacity load by stage - run hours, batches, crews, and shifts required versus available - and model the effect of demand changes, downtime, and yield variation.
• Maintain the model that converts the rolling outlook into required headcount, shift pattern, equipment hours, and utilization, refreshed each planning cycle.
• Answer Plant Operations on every material demand shift: can we accommodate it, by when, and what would have to change - shift, overtime, crew, or equipment - with cost and lead-time implications.
• Own the plan of record and its time fence, publish attainment and past-due aging, and root-cause each miss to material, equipment, labor, quality, or planning.
• Maintain the parameters behind a…