Brownfield Site Leader — Global Manufacturing Operations

Advanced Energy; Cavite City; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Energy seeks a Facilities Manager in Cavite, Philippines, to lead design, development, and long-term management of a brownfield manufacturing site. You will shape site infrastructure, service strategies, and organizational capability from inception, partnering with IE and stakeholders.

During initial six months, build a two-shift facilities team, select service providers, and drive safe, compliant operations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive facilities leadership in complex, utility-intensive manufacturing

Responsibilities

• Lead facilities input to the brownfield site design in collaboration with IE, Manufacturing, EHS, Quality, IT, Security, and other stakeholders.
• Develop the facilities basis of design, utilityrequirements, capacity assumptions, technical standards, layouts, redundancy strategies, and lifecycle considerations.
• Provide decisive facilities leadership through design reviews, constructability assessments, risk reviews, value engineering, scope decisions, and change control.
• Build a two-shift facilities organization from scratch, including organization design, staffing plans, recruitment, onboarding, training, shift coverage, escalation protocols, and development of a safety-focused culture.
• Develop the facilities operating model, governance, procedures, maintenance strategy, asset hierarchy, spare-parts plan, and work-management processes.
• Define service scopes and lead the evaluation, selection, mobilization, and governance of contractors and service providers for construction, commissioning, maintenance, security, and waste.
• Oversee facilities construction and installation activities, coordinating with project teams and suppliers to protect safety, quality, schedule, cost, and compliance.
• Lead commissioning support, system acceptance, documentation turnover, training, defect resolution, and transition to reliable operations.
• Own end-to-end accountability for buildings, utilities, critical infrastructure, maintenance, workplace services, compliance, and business continuity.
• Establish strong controls for EHS, regulatory compliance, building codes, audit readiness, contractor safety, and timely closure of risks.
• Drive reliability, cost efficiency, energy and resource management, service quality, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Facilities leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Design reviews

Risk assessment

Project leadership

Budgeting

EHS management

Regulatory compliance

Executive presence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Facilities, or related engineering

Advanced degree or professional certification advantageous

Job description

Advanced Energy seeks a Facilities Manager in Cavite, Philippines, to lead design, development, and long-term management of a brownfield manufacturing site. You will shape site infrastructure, service strategies, and organizational capability from inception, partnering with IE and stakeholders.

During initial six months, build a two-shift facilities team, select service providers, and drive safe, compliant operations.