About the Role

CBRE is looking for a confident, hands-on and independent Facilities Manager to lead integrated facilities operations for a leading medical-device manufacturing client in Penang, Malaysia. The position carries Facilities Manager title while requiring the leadership maturity, governance discipline and operational ownership typically expected of a Facilities Manager.

The role is the on-site key point of contact for Facilities and is responsible for safe, reliable, compliant and cost-effective site operations across hard services, soft services, cleanroom and controlled manufacturing environments. The Facilities Manager will partner closely with Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, Engineering, Procurement and other stakeholders to protect manufacturing continuity, maintain audit readiness and drive continual improvement.

What You’ll Do

Site & Facilities Leadership

• Lead day-to-day integrated facilities management and site operations, including maintenance, engineering support, workplace/soft services, helpdesk, occupancy support and service partner coordination.
• Act as the on-site Facilities lead and trusted client partner, proactively engaging stakeholders and translating business and manufacturing needs into practical facilities actions.
• Lead, coach and develop the site facilities team and service partners, building a strong culture of safety, ownership, collaboration, service excellence and accountability.
• Maintain business continuity and coordinate emergency response, escalation and out-of-hours support for critical site issues.

• Manage facilities supporting cleanroom and controlled manufacturing areas, with focus on environmental stability, contamination control and manufacturing uptime.
• Oversee critical systems and utilities including cleanroom HVAC/AHU, HEPA filtration, chilled water, electrical distribution, emergency power/UPS, BMS/controls, compressed dry air (CDA), process cooling water (PCW), nitrogen and other manufacturing-support utilities as applicable to the site.
• Maintain cleanroom environmental parameters including temperature, relative humidity, room pressure differentials, airflow and cleanliness requirements; coordinate particle-count testing, HEPA/filter maintenance and environmental verification with relevant stakeholders.
• Lead preventive and predictive maintenance, 52-week PPM planning, critical asset reviews, lifecycle planning, shutdown coordination and reliability improvement programmes.
• Support cleanroom qualification/requalification, commissioning, validation and change-control activities from a facilities perspective, in coordination with Quality and Engineering.
• Review P&IDs, schematics, single-line diagrams, equipment data, BMS trends and maintenance history to support troubleshooting, risk assessment and improvement.

Compliance, EHS & RBA Readiness

• Ensure facilities operations comply with applicable Malaysian statutory requirements, client EHS requirements, permit-to-work controls, contractor safety requirements and internal governance standards.
• Maintain audit-ready facilities documentation including SOPs, maintenance procedures, service reports, risk assessments/JHA, method statements, permits, asset records, drawings, inspection records and calibration/verification records where applicable.
• Support Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) audit readiness and corrective-action closure in areas relevant to facilities and service partners, including labour, health & safety, environment, ethics and management-system controls.
• Work with Procurement and vendors to maintain appropriate vendor due diligence, licences/certifications, insurance, worker documentation, training/competency records and subcontractor governance.
• Support Quality and manufacturing compliance expectations applicable to a regulated medical-device environment, including documentation discipline, deviation/CAPA support and change management.

• Manage hard and soft service vendors, specialist contractors and service partners to ensure services are delivered safely, on time, within scope, within budget and to agreed KPI/SLA standards.
• Develop and review technical scopes, quotations and contracts; monitor contract expiry, re-procurement, performance, service recovery and continual value improvement.
• Manage site OPEX/CAPEX budgets, forecasts, purchase requirements and cost-control initiatives while balancing compliance, reliability, manufacturing risk and lifecycle value.
• Track vendor and site performance through KPIs including PPM compliance, work-order response/completion, asset uptime, repeat failures, utilities performance, safety/compliance closure, audit actions and cost performance.

• Drive structured root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions for recurring failures, utility interruptions, service deficiencies and facilities-related deviations.
• Champion Lean, Kaizen and data-driven continuous improvement to improve uptime, service quality, energy efficiency, maintenance productivity and cost effectiveness.
• Maintain site risk registers, escalation and incident-reporting processes, emergency preparedness and business-continuity arrangements.
• Support capital planning, equipment replacement, facility upgrades, project delivery, commissioning and handover.

• Working knowledge of cleanroom principles and ISO 14644 concepts, including cleanliness classification, contamination control, pressure cascade, airflow, temperature/humidity control and HEPA filtration.
• Understanding of regulated manufacturing practices and the relationship between facilities/utilities, product quality, operational continuity, documentation and audit readiness.
• Working knowledge of critical mechanical, electrical, HVAC, BMS/controls and manufacturing-support utility systems.
• Practical understanding of RBA requirements and audit-readiness expectations, particularly labour, health & safety, environmental, ethics and supply-chain/vendor governance controls.
• Awareness of quality-system expectations such as ISO 13485 and GMP/cGMP principles is advantageous where facilities activities may affect manufacturing or product quality.

What You’ll Need

• Degree or Diploma in Facilities Management, Mechanical, Electrical, Building Services, Manufacturing, Mechatronics or a related engineering discipline.
• Typically 8–10+ years of relevant facilities, engineering or manufacturing operations experience, with demonstrated leadership responsibility. Strong candidates with slightly less tenure but substantial manufacturing/cleanroom leadership exposure may be considered.
• Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, electronics or another cleanroom/controlled manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing integrated facilities operations, technical teams, vendors and contractors in an operational manufacturing site.
• Strong understanding of cleanroom HVAC, critical utilities, preventive maintenance, reliability, contractor governance and facilities risk management.
• Experience supporting audits, compliance programmes and corrective-action closure; RBA exposure or audit-readiness experience is highly advantageous.
• Strong client/stakeholder management skills and confidence working across Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, Engineering, Procurement and leadership teams.
• Commercial capability in OPEX/CAPEX budgeting, forecasting, contract management, vendor performance and lifecycle planning.
• Strong analytical, communication, presentation and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex operational priorities.
• Independent, proactive and decisive, with a continuous-improvement mindset and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Key Result Areas

• Safe, compliant and uninterrupted facilities operations supporting manufacturing.
• Cleanroom and critical-utility reliability and environmental stability.
• RBA, EHS, statutory and client audit readiness with timely closure of findings.
• Achievement of site KPIs and SLAs, including PPM and work-order performance.
• Client and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Vendor performance, commercial control and service quality.
• Continual improvement in reliability, energy, cost and operational efficiency.

Why CBRE

When you join CBRE, you become part of a global leader in commercial real estate services and investment. Our collaborative culture is built on respect, integrity, service and excellence, and we value diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets. You will have the opportunity to make a meaningful operational impact in a highly regulated manufacturing environment while developing your facilities leadership career.

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