Outage and Projects Director

Aboitiz Power Corp; Philippines; On-site; PHP 9,000,000 - 15,000,000; Full time

Job summary

AboitizPower Corp is seeking aDirector to define, standardize, and govern Outage Management across the Renewable Group fleet, spanning hydro, geothermal, solar, run-of-river, and pumped storage assets.

You will lead governance, strategic Capex oversight, and a centralized PMO to standardize delivery, while driving safety, cost, and schedule performance across multi-site operations.

Qualifications

• 18–20 years of experience in power generation, operations, and technical management across renewable assets.
• Proven track record in fleet-wide outage management and Capex governance.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering; MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define, standardize, and govern Outage Management best practices across the Renewable Group fleet.
• Lead mandatory gate reviews, pre-outage readiness reviews, and post-outage evaluations.
• Oversee Capex plan for outages and project portfolio governance across Hydro, Geothermal, Solar, Run-of-River, and Pumped Storage sites.
• Establish a centralized Project Management Office (PMO) to standardize project delivery processes and governance.
• Drive continuous improvement in safety, cost, schedule, and quality performance across all assets.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across multiple sites and contractors.

Skills

Outage governance

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Executive leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Location: Makati, City

Job Level: Director

Business Unit: Aboitiz Renewables, Inc.

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Role Summary

To define, standardize, and govern Outage Management best practices and outage readiness monitoring across the entire Renewable Group fleet (Hydro, Geothermal, Solar, Run-of-River, and Pumped Storage), while providing strategic portfolio management, governance, and oversight for Capex project readiness, execution, and finalization.

Define and Standardize Outage Management Best Practices Across the Fleet

• Define, establish, and continuously refine standardized Outage Management best practices, procedures, standards, tools, and digital technologies across all Renewable assets (Hydro, Geothermal, Solar, Run-of-River, and Pumped Storage).
• Develop standards for shutdown and unplanned outage management.
• Provide an outage fleet plan for a 3-year look ahead by coordinating with the various BUs.
• Optimize outage plans with Central Operations and Trading.
• Implement fleet-wide outage readiness monitoring (ORI/OEI frameworks) and governance structures to ensure predictable, safe, and efficient outage execution across all technologies.
• Establish standard lifecycle governance processes for identification, long-term planning, scheduling, execution, and control of major overhauls, shutdowns, and routine outages across the Renewable Group.
• Formulate strategic policies to optimize outage duration, minimize generation loss/downtime, and control outage expenditure across all operating facilities.
• Drive continuous improvement of cost, time and performance through Industry Intelligence internal and external to organisation
• Develops process that reduce downtime and outage durations and the cost to carry out the activities in the plan before and during planned outages.
• Defines the procedures and processes for steps in the Outage Management for the Outage gate review process

Conduct Reviews and Investigations

• Lead mandatory gate review processes, pre-outage readiness reviews, and post-outage evaluations across all Renewable business units to ensure compliance with standardized governance.
• Facilitate cross-site sharing of lessons learned and industry benchmarks to drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, schedule, and cost performance across all generation technologies.
• Conducts Outage investigations into Outage slips/delays or the occurrence of major incidents during the outages
• Support Asset Management teams with Operational readiness reviews for new build project integration to brownfields

Stakeholder Management

• Direct and drive stakeholder relationships management
• Develop the process for integration of outage/project plan from various contractors/stakeholders involved in the Outage

Skills development

• Formulate the requirements for skills development for Outage Management and drive with relevant training organisations to provide sufficient and efficient availability of Outage Management resources.

Plant Asset Management

• Significantly contributes to overall efforts in enhancing asset management practices across multi-sites for long term integrity and cost optimization.
• Determine and define the monitoring and reporting systems to be used in the management of Outages
• Establishes and continuously reviews the 10 and 5 year Overall Outage Plan in conjunction with power station teams

Capex Investment

• Oversight of Capex plan for power stations for outages
• Optimizes and prioritizes Outage expenditure

Project Portfolio Management & Governance

• Provide strategic oversight and leadership for the Renewable Group project portfolio management, ensuring alignment with corporate capital asset management plans and business targets.
• Govern and monitor Capex project readiness, execution, commissioning, and finalization across all Hydro, Geothermal, Solar, Run-of-River, and Pumped Storage sites.
• Promotes and implements good, disciplined, sound project management techniques.
• Establish a centralized Project Management Office (PMO) to standardize project delivery processes, investment release gates, and governance across all Capex initiatives:
• Produce a project delivery process and investment control procedure for selection, control and governance of projects and asset acquisition
• Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan
• Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan
• Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary
• Managing project scope and change control and escalating issues where necessary
• Reports and tracks progress of projects within the power station and prompt senior management interventions and support, as required.

SHE Management

• Ensures that Safety, Health, Environment, and Housekeeping
• Complies with occupational safety and health as well as environmental rules and regulations to prevent accidents, illness, and adverse effects on the environment.

Complies with housekeeping policies within his/her area of responsibility during assigned shift to maintain standards of cleanliness and orderliness of plant equipment and premises.

Others

Performs other related duties and responsibilities that may be assigned by his/her immediate superior.

To Succeed in this Role, we need someone who has experience and skill in the following:

• Fleet-wide outage strategy definition, standardized outage governance, and readiness monitoring (ORI/OEI)
• Strategic Project Portfolio Management, Capex governance, and project stage-gate decision-making
• Multi-asset engineering and operational risk governance across diverse renewable energy technologies
• Lead stakeholder management
• Direct and management of the department
• Financial management of Operating and Capital Expenditure

What You Will Need:

Professional: At least 18-20 years of experience in power generation, power plant operations, and technical management across renewable assets.

Leadership: At least 10 years in executive leadership, senior portfolio management, or directorial roles managing multi-site outage and capital project teams.

Project & Outage Governance: Extensive proven track record in fleet-wide outage management and execution, readiness governance and complex Capex project portfolio oversight.

Education: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or related technical field); Advanced degree/MBA preferred.

Licenses/Certifications: Professional membership of Engineering Institute desirable

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About Us

AboitizPower is the holding company for the Aboitiz Group's investments in power generation, distribution, and retail electricity services. We are among the largest power producers in the Philippines, with a balanced portfolio of assets located across the country. We are also a major producer of renewable energy, with several hydroelectric, geothermal, and solar power generation facilities.

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