Freelance Expert Daily Planning (Hastus) Mechelen Belgium (Hybrid)

Location: Mechelen Belgium (Hybrid 2 days onsite per week)
Contract Duration: 1 October 2026 31 March 2027
Workload: Full-time (100%)
Industry: Public Transport / ICT / Workforce Planning
Application Deadline: 29 July 2026

About the Opportunity

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Expert Daily Planning to support one of Belgiums leading public transport organizations. Youll play a key role in ensuring the stability performance and continuous improvement of mission-critical workforce planning applications that support thousands of drivers and daily transport operations across Flanders.

Working closely with business stakeholders IT teams and external vendors youll be responsible for managing and optimizing the Hastus Daily application environment ensuring efficient personnel planning operational continuity and high-quality public transport services.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the application owner for Hastus Daily with a focus on DailyCrew and PlanCrew
• Ensure the stability availability and performance of business-critical planning applications
• Monitor production environments and manage incidents problems and long-term improvements
• Analyze business requirements related to workforce planning shift scheduling absences qualifications and vacation planning
• Translate operational needs into application configurations and change requests
• Coordinate software releases patches hotfixes and vendor updates
• Lead and support functional testing including TST and UAT
• Assess risks and business impact of planned changes
• Collaborate with planners HR teams IT departments and external software suppliers
• Support integrations with HR and related enterprise systems
• Identify opportunities for optimization and future enhancements

Required Skills & Experience

Essential

• Minimum 8 years of experience within the public transport sector
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Hastus Daily (GIRO) or an equivalent workforce planning solution
• Minimum 8 years working with planning software used in public transport environments (such as Hastus IVU Peak Mobility Trapeze or similar)
• Minimum 5 years working with the relevant technologies or closely related platforms
• At least 3 years of experience in workforce planning
• Native or near-native Dutch (CEFR C2)

Preferred

• Experience with personnel planning in shift-based environments
• Experience with decision-support planning software
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering ICT Computer Science or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience)

Ideal Candidate

You are a proactive application expert who enjoys working at the intersection of business and technology. You have strong analytical skills excellent stakeholder communication abilities and understand how critical workforce planning systems support day-to-day transport operations. You thrive in collaborative environments and are comfortable taking ownership of business-critical applications.

If youre passionate about optimizing workforce planning technology and helping keep public transport running efficiently wed love to hear from you.