Head of Construction and Renovation

The Medical City; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Medical City Ortigas is seeking an experienced Head of Constructions and Renovation Projects to lead hospital renovation, refurbishment, infrastructure, and CAPEX initiatives across the network, ensuring patient safety and regulatory compliance. You will oversee scope, schedule, budget, quality, and turnover through stakeholders, consultants, and vendors, driving standard methodologies and governance.

This role excludes people management but requires strategic planning and robust project

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture or Civil Engineering with PRC license or registration.
• 6–10 years of relevant experience in construction and project supervision.
• Knowledge of DOH requirements, building codes, life-safety standards, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage hospital renovation, expansion, fit-out, infrastructure, and equipment projects across the enterprise and network hospitals.
• Develop integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Prepare business cases and investment justifications for CAPEX initiatives.
• Develop and maintain CAPEX master plans and prioritize projects by strategic importance and ROI.
• Monitor progress, costs, cash flow, and ROI; consolidate CAPEX reports for leadership.
• Coordinate architectural, engineering, and MEPF designs to enterprise standards.
• Review contractor bills, change orders, and apply value engineering.
• Support procurement for construction and equipment, including vendor selection and negotiations.
• Coordinate permits, inspections, and approvals to meet DOH and codes.

Skills

Project management

Construction management

CAPEX planning

Regulatory compliance

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Architecture or Civil Engineering

PRC License/Registered Architect/Civil Engineer

PMP Certification

Job description

The Medical City Ortigas is searching for an experienced Head - Constructions and Renovation Projects to join the team and help lead the organization to the next level. This role is crucial for planning, coordinating, and delivering hospital renovation, refurbishment, infrastructure, and CAPEX projects across the enterprise and network hospitals, ensuring uninterrupted hospital operations, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and quality standards. This role is accountable for project scope, schedule, budget, quality, compliance, and turnover across the full project lifecycle, and works through stakeholders, consultants, vendors, and established governance, not people management.

What's The Role All About

Job responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Plan and manage hospital renovation, expansion, fit-out, infrastructure, and equipment acquisition projects from initiation to closeout across the enterprise and network hospitals.
• Develop integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and phased implementation strategies.
• Prepare business cases, feasibility studies, and investment justifications for CAPEX initiatives.
• Develop and maintain annual and multi-year CAPEX master plans, and prioritize capital projects by strategic importance, operational need, regulatory compliance, and financial return.
• Monitor project progress, costs, cash flow forecasts, and ROI across facilities, and consolidate CAPEX reports and recommendations for executive leadership and governance committees.
• Review and coordinate architectural, engineering, MEPF, medical equipment planning, and facility designs to ensure alignment with enterprise design standards and technical specifications.
• Track construction and renovation progress, and monitor contractor and consultant deliverables against contract requirements for schedule, quality, and compliance.
• Review contractor billings, variation orders, change orders, and claims, and apply value engineering and cost optimization measures.
• Support procurement for construction, infrastructure, and medical equipment, including bid evaluation, vendor selection, contract negotiation, and framework agreements.
• Coordinate permits, certifications, inspections, and approvals to ensure compliance with DOH requirements, building codes, life-safety standards, environmental regulations, and accreditation standards.
• Manage project closeout, asset capitalization, warranty management, and post-occupancy evaluations.
• Provide project management guidance to affiliate and network hospitals, and develop standard methodologies, templates, and governance frameworks.
• Document and share lessons learned and best practices to continuously improve project delivery.
• Support strategic growth initiatives, including expansions, acquisitions, and new healthcare facility development, from a project planning and delivery perspective

Ideally, a candidate must have a Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level of Architecture or Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related field with PRC License/Registered Architecture/Civil Engineer, Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) Holder with 6-10 years of relevant experience in Construction and project supervision.