Planner for complex aircraft maintenance at Air Planning in Karup

Do you want to work with planning in a complex technical environment where your contribution directly affects the Armed Forces' ability to be ready when it matters? In Planning AIR we are looking for an experienced and curious planner who can create an overview, think ahead and translate complex needs into realistic production plans.

About us

Planning AIR is part of the Maintenance Area Karup under the Armed Forces Maintenance Service. We support planning and management of maintenance production across several aircraft types.

Our task is to create coherence between maintenance needs, operational requirements, available competence capacity and actual production. We support both daily production and operational activities in Denmark and internationally. It requires effective coordination, flexibility and planning that also meet current requirements for airworthiness, documentation and compliance.

We are in the process of developing a more robust, standardized and data-driven planning function. The goal is to strengthen long-term planning and give planners better opportunities to focus on professional assessments, complex prioritizations and cross-cutting connections.

About the position

As a planner you will have a central role in the management of our maintenance production, where you work with both day-to-day operations and long-term planning. You will be responsible for, and must ensure coherence between operational needs, available resources and concrete production agreements.

With the help of production support, which handles a large part of the standardized and administrative elements, you will have the opportunity to focus on the professional assessments and complex prioritizations that are decisive for an efficient maintenance production.

You will become part of a dedicated and interdisciplinary team, where you collaborate with different disciplines and get the opportunity to influence the development of the planning of the future in military aircraft maintenance.

We offer a flexible working environment with a focus on professional and personal development, ongoing continuing education and good career opportunities across the Defence. You will receive a thorough introduction to the tasks and the organization, as well as the possibility of remote work and to stay physically active when service permits.

Your main tasks will among others be to

• handle technical case processing and quality assure and manage production agreements and the overall production plan
• make qualified prioritizations when needs, capacity and prerequisites change
• develop and maintain forecasts
• identify risks, bottlenecks and possible actions
• contribute to larger production and capacity analyses
• translate data and experience into improved planning
• report status, forecasts, risks and decision needs to Planning Manager

About you

We imagine that you have relevant education and solid experience in production, operations, maintenance or project planning or equivalent from a complex production or operations environment.

You could, for example, be trained as a production technologist, marine engineer, engineer or have a technical education background combined with relevant planning experience.

Your experience could come from technical maintenance, industry, transport, process production, where planning requires coordination of resources, capacity, competences, rules and changing prerequisites.

We emphasize that you

• work in a structured way and keep an overview under pressure
• have strong planning skills and work analytically and forward-looking
• can handle complex issues and make qualified prioritizations
• use data and analyses as a basis for planning and decisions
• communicate complex matters clearly and professionally in writing and speech
• master technical English in writing and speech and can use technical documentation
• build good collaborative relations and can coordinate tasks across disciplines
• dare to challenge prerequisites and ask constructive, critical questions
• take ownership, follow up and ensure progress in your tasks

We imagine that you are familiar with digital tools and use them as a natural part of your planning and follow-up.

Experience with SAP as a production and planning system is an advantage, but not a requirement.

As part of the employment process you should expect to work with a short, practical case during a potential interview.

Employment terms

You are employed in accordance with the current collective agreement.

Depending on your qualifications and competences, there is a possibility for salary supplements. There is an employer-funded pension scheme attached to the position.

The workplace is in Karup

As an employee under the Ministry of Defence area you are subject to certain special terms. You must be able to obtain and maintain security clearance during the entire employment.

You have as an employee the duty to perform service outside the country, including at units in international operations with a view to participation in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, humanitarian and other similar operations.

Contact and application

If you want to hear more about the position, you are welcome to contact the Head of Planning AIR, Senior Sergeant Rasmus Vangsy on phone 5127 7473 (feel free to send a text message so we can call you back as soon as possible).

If you have questions about salary and terms of employment you are welcome to contact the Personnel Command, HR Consultant Isabella Lund Skjoldborg on phone 3044 5570.

The application deadline is 19 November 2026 and interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter. The position is to be filled on 1 January 2027.

You apply for the position via the link, and we ask you to attach your cover letter, CV and copies of your educational certificate/apprenticeship. Please note that attachments must be added in PDF format.

In the Danish Defence organization we believe that diversity optimizes task solving. Therefore we encourage all interested regardless of background to apply for the position.

About the Danish Defence Maintenance Service

The Danish Defence Maintenance Service is a quality management and occupational safety-conscious service organization that maintains, repairs and modifies the Danish Defence equipment. Part of the organization is today ISO and occupational safety certified, which is expected to be extended to the entire organization. The authority employs about 1,700 staff.

The Danish Defence Maintenance Service consists of a Maintenance Division with six maintenance areas spread geographically across the country, and a Planning and Coordination Division located in Brabrand. The six Maintenance Areas specialize in repairing, maintaining and modifying specific materiel systems within their professional pillar. The Planning and Coordination Division consists of a Business Department and an Operations Department, which handle coordinating planning, training, management, controlling and development of the Danish Defence Maintenance Service.

In addition to repairing and maintaining the Defence’s materiel, the Danish Defence Maintenance Service also supports Defence operations and missions with well-trained military technical personnel, who are lent to Defence units in accordance with agreed planning or ad hoc in special cases.