Facilities Leader: Startup Site & Global Manufacturing

Advanced Energy; Rosario; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Energy in Cavite, Philippines, seeks a Facilities Manager to lead the brownfield site design, build a two‑shift facilities team, and drive startup readiness for a strategically critical manufacturing site.

You will oversee design, construction, commissioning, and transition to reliable operations, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and cost discipline across buildings, utilities, and workplace services.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive facilities leadership in complex, utility‑intensive manufacturing.
• Experience leading brownfield design, major expansion, construction, commissioning, factory‑startup, or production‑ramp programs from early definition through stable operations.
• Deep technical knowledge of manufacturing infrastructure and critical utilities, with sound judgment in design, capacity, redundancy, reliability, maintainability, risk, and lifecycle investment decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Industrial Engineering and cross‑functional partners while independently driving decisions, priorities, issue resolution, and execution.
• Proven capability to build multi‑shift facilities teams and operating systems from inception, including recruitment, training, maintenance readiness, governance, and emergency coverage.

Responsibilities

• Lead facilities input to the brownfield site design in close collaboration with IE, Manufacturing, EHS, Quality, IT, Security, and other stakeholders.
• Develop the facilities basis of design, utility requirements, capacity assumptions, technical standards, layouts, redundancy strategies, maintainability requirements, and lifecycle considerations for new and modified systems.
• Provide decisive facilities leadership through design reviews, constructability and operability 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, high‑performance culture.
• Develop the facilities operating model, governance, procedures, maintenance strategy, asset hierarchy, spare‑parts plan, work‑management processes, and performance measures required for startup and steady‑state operations.
• Define service scopes and lead the evaluation, selection, mobilization, and governance of contractors and service providers responsible for construction, commissioning, maintenance, security, janitorial, waste, and specialist technical services.
• Oversee facilities construction and installation activities, coordinating with project teams and suppliers to protect safety, quality, schedule, cost, technical compliance, and operational readiness.
• Lead commissioning support, system acceptance, documentation turnover, training, defect resolution, and transition from project delivery into reliable operations.
• Once operational, assume end‑to‑end accountability for buildings, utilities, critical infrastructure, maintenance, workplace services, compliance, emergency preparedness, business continuity, budgets, and capital planning.
• Establish strong controls for EHS, Philippine regulatory and permitting requirements, building codes, audit readiness, contractor safety, and timely closure of risks and findings.
• Drive reliability, cost effectiveness, energy and resource efficiency, service quality, and continuous improvement while maintaining the resilience required of a strategically critical site.

Skills

Facilities leadership

Brownfield design

Cross-functional collaboration

Staffing and training

Project management

Regulatory compliance

EHS management

Budgeting & cost control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial/Facilities engineering

Job description

Advanced Energy in Cavite, Philippines, seeks a Facilities Manager to lead the brownfield site design, build a two‑shift facilities team, and drive startup readiness for a strategically critical manufacturing site.

You will oversee design, construction, commissioning, and transition to reliable operations, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and cost discipline across buildings, utilities, and workplace services.