Senior Facilities Leader - Start-up & Operations (2-Shift)

Advanced Energy; Rosario; On-site; PHP 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Energy in Cavite, Philippines, seeks a Facilities Manager to lead the design, development, and long‑term management of a strategically critical brownfield manufacturing site. You will shape facilities infrastructure, service strategies, and organizational capability from the outset, partnering with IE and key stakeholders to build the team and select providers.

Once operational, you will own end-to-end facilities performance, compliance, cost, and continuous improvement, establishing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Facilities, or related engineering; an advanced degree or relevant professional certification is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead facilities input to brownfield site design 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, and lifecycle considerations.
• 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 a safety-focused culture.
• Develop operating model, governance, procedures, maintenance strategy, asset hierarchy, spare-parts plan, and performance measures for startup and steady-state operations.
• Define service scopes and oversee contractors and service providers for construction, commissioning, maintenance, security, janitorial, waste, and specialist services.
• Oversee facilities construction and installation activities, coordinating with project teams and suppliers to protect safety, quality, schedule, cost, compliance, and readiness.
• Lead commissioning support, system acceptance, documentation turnover, training, defect resolution, and transition to reliable operations.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collab

Brownfield design

Regulatory compliance

Project management

Staffing & training

EHS governance

Vendor management

Education

Engineering degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

AutoCAD

Facility FM software

Job description

Advanced Energy in Cavite, Philippines, seeks a Facilities Manager to lead the design, development, and long‑term management of a strategically critical brownfield manufacturing site. You will shape facilities infrastructure, service strategies, and organizational capability from the outset, partnering with IE and key stakeholders to build the team and select providers.

Once operational, you will own end-to-end facilities performance, compliance, cost, and continuous improvement, establishing