Production Planner

Location: Belgium

Company: FMA Services

Department: Planning / Construction

Work Environment: Industrial construction & pre-commissioning

Shift: 1st shift

Desired start: October 12, 2026

About the Position

To strengthen our Project Acceleration Team, we are looking for multiple Production Planners who can translate daily and weekly execution into a feasible, measurable, and action-oriented schedule.

The focus lies on construction progress, short-term planning, and recovery during an intensive acceleration phase.

Your Responsibilities

• Preparing and maintaining detailed schedules, 2/3-week look-aheads, and daily production plans.
• Integrating actual progress from the site and analyzing deviations against baseline and targets.
• Identifying critical/near-critical activities, bottlenecks, constraints, and potential schedule impacts.
• Supporting resource loading, manpower forecasting, and productivity analyses.
• Preparing progress curves, S-curves, dashboards, and planning reports for management.
• Facilitating planning and coordination meetings with construction, engineering, procurement, and pre-commissioning.
• Developing recovery scenarios and acceleration actions when progress falls behind.
• Ensuring consistent progress measurement and correct status data per work package or area.

Your Profile

• Experience as a Planner, Construction Planner, or Production Planner within large-scale industrial projects.
• Good knowledge of Primavera P6 is highly desirable; MS Project or similar planning tools are an asset.
• You understand construction sequencing, work fronts, progress measurement, and the link between engineering, materials, and execution.
• You have strong analytical skills and are able to translate planning data into practical actions on site.
• Good Excel skills and experience with dashboards/reporting are desired.
• Fluent knowledge of English; Dutch is an asset.

Education & experience

Education: Bachelor/Master in engineering, construction, or equivalent

Experience: Minimum 4-6 years of planning experience

Certificates & site requirements

• VCA-basis or VCA-VOL depending on site responsibility.
• Experience with EPC/industrial construction is highly desirable.

Core competencies

• Primavera P6
• Look-ahead planning
• Progress measurement
• Recovery planning
• S-curves
• Field coordination

What you can expect

• A technically challenging assignment within a large-scale industrial project environment.
• A professional work environment with a strong focus on safety, quality, planning, and collaboration.
• Clear responsibilities, short lines of communication, and a direct impact on project progress.
• Collaboration with experienced construction, engineering, quality, HSE, and commissioning teams.
• Opportunity to participate in an intensive project acceleration phase with clear milestones.

Interested?

Please provide us with your most recent CV, availability, and relevant certificates. Clearly state that you are applying for the position of Production Planner.

FMA Services selects candidates based on competence, experience, and project requirements. Final deployment and shift scheduling will be aligned with project needs and site approval.