Paul Pagalanan

Professional in Manufacturing, Operations, and Management 

OPERATIONS MANAGER / GREENPRO WASTE WATER COMPANY

APRIL 2025 - OCTOBER 2025

• Manage and coordinate the scheduling, maintenance, and optimization of GreenPro wastewater
• Treatment processes.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, technicians, and support staff to achieve operational excellence.
• Develop and implement operational strategies to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance the
• Performance of treatment plants.
• Monitor plant performance data, conduct regular inspections, and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, project management, and engineering, to

ensure seamless project execution and client satisfaction.

• Ensure compliance with environmental regulations and company policies.
• Prepare and present operational reports to senior management, providing insights and
• Recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Manage processes related to plant operations.
• Establish and maintain relationships with clients, vendors, and regulatory agencies.
• Mentor and guide technical team members, fostering professional growth and knowledge sharing.
• Maintain transparent communication with senior management, project teams, and external

PLANT MANAGER l BESTANK VALENZUELA 

JULY 2024 - JANUARY 2025

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for all the sites of the plan
• Cost and Budgeting 
• Responsible for making sure the process has been made
• Annual and quarterly performance alignment to the KPI
• Bringing The plant to the standard operating level
• Responsible for Documenting and training for the staff Peers and management
• Managing high level performance meetings
• Bridge to all sites of the region 
• Responsible for sales and Planning revenue
• Managing Warehouse and Logistics Delivery for Both Tanks And non tanks
• Managing Segregations and Reconditioning from SC service Team

COMPLEX PRODUCTION MANAGER / ASK CEMENT /KSA YANBU SAUDI ARABIA

APRIL 2022 - MARCH 2024

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for the whole production line
• Project Management and doing Online Commissioning 
• Planning for both FRC lines 1 And 2
• Responsible for machine improvements CIL
• Responsible for the people safety, drive zero harm
• Responsible for the Quality side
• Responsible for the efficiency side, waste, speed, delay
• Responsible for the visual management system / Daily Meeting 
• Responsible for the staff Training, Managing the succession plan. 
• Responsible for low-cost projects that will impact the cost of product as initiatives.
• Down day scheduling for both lines.
• Responsible for new product development
• Responsible for building capacity 
• The single contact of all teams in BU5 machines
• Head of Efficiency waste, speed, delay. 
• Handling KT sessions for the recurring process and physical delays
• Mapping of Machine rehabilitation for mechanical parts and spares    

AFTER SALES MANAGER/ PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE RDAN and CO.

APRIL 2021 to APRIL 2022

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for all the PARCEL machinery PM and frequency schedule
• Calendar cycle scheduler for the Regional Maintenance
• Scheduling of preventive calendars per client / both Logistics and General industry. 
• Responsible for GENERAL INDUSTRY machinery and frequency schedule
• After sales need for the logistics (ZALORA, LBC, ENTREGO, DHL, UPS, LAZADA)
• Rollers and Conveyors maintenance
• Scheduling Via weekly, monthly, quarterly and Annual PMS
• Driving both PLANNED and UNPLANNED delays including manpower
• Driving to Zero harm every area of the PM / ERS
• Closing and Renewing contracts for the aftersales account
• Project support manpower side 
• KPI setting to all account.
• Set up visual management results.
• First Line of Project Contact
• Providing costing and quotations for the costumers needing spares and services,
• Overall contact for the operations of the services, that the company is providing. 
• As administrative, responsible for SAFETY, QUALITY, SPEED, DELAY
• Maintenance cost and Process improvement leader 
• Organizing Purchases from Overseas from OEM to Maintenance
• Structuring Visual management for the operations, reporting and working Loads.
• Costing for the spares and Labor for the Client
• Overall manager for the Logistics and General industry. 
• Handling the direction to draft the drawing for engineering for out parts.
• Costing and quotation creation for spare parts for both local and importation

BRANCH OPERATIONS MANAGER and PLANNING MANAGER / TEHFI HAIR FACTORY 

OCTOBER 2019 - APRIL 2021

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for the 12 Branches of the business 
• Standardization of all 12 branches making them all visual by daily management 
• Driving the volume by visual management
• Responsible for all the concerns in Quality relatively to the branch and contractors
• Responsible on the planning side and project for new accounts
• Driving continuous improvement on the weak area of the branch
• Initiating all means of communication in Visual daily management
• Driving on time deliveries for all manual workers

COMMISSIONING MANAGER and RAMP UP MANAGER / JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES                                                 JUNE 2016 - OCTOBER 2019

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for the new machine design process side
• Involved on the design review and simulation Navis (process)
• Technical review manager on the process
• Responsible on the hiring of the new Process operators, training and onboarding
• Responsible for all area commissioning
• Responsible for creating a commissioning plan. 
• Responsible for expansion ramp up.
• Ramp up all machinery to optimum design.
• Oversee production teams creating new products via approval with R and D
• Reporting to the GM of APAC
• Provide troubleshooting guide documents for all new process operations.
• Extending support to James Hardie New Zealand
• Support APAC results Via technical training
• Managing the new lines of the plant
• As administrative, responsible for SAFETY, QUALITY, SPEED, DELAY
• Responsible for training on the new management team during handover
• Set up the cost side of the newly installed machine.
• Set up the safety Visual management of the newly installed machine.
• Overall contact for the whole PLANT in absence of the Plant Manager

CAPACITY MANAGER / JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES              

 FEBRUARY 2016 - JUNE 2016

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for improvement of process and machine improvement on main machine, Stretch capacity.
• Step up projects for extra volume capacity.
• Understanding the gap and design upgrade of Main machine
• Technical training for Line 1 and Line 2
• To ramp up and maximized all production scale of scrap, waste, speed, delay.
• Learning of new product line up for marketing mockups.
• Working in NZ, AU, and TX US plants experiencing startups. 

EFFICIENCY MANAGER / JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES           

September 2014-Feb 2016

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for production efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure that sustainable operational excellence is achieved in terms of productivity, yield and cost.
• Plan, lead and monitor the whole production group in achieving plant KPIs including machine efficiency, scrap rate, first pass reject, yield, speed, and delays.
• Set up machine capacity/output rate for new products.
• Develop, improve and evaluate production systems in order to make improvements on efficiency, quality and yield.
• Ensures compliance with performance measurement standards and tools.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) to identify gaps in the production processes and develop strategic plan on how to address it.
• KT implementation
• Technical training for all production and maintenance personnel

PRODUCTION MANAGER /  JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES     

MAY 2012 – AUGUST 2014

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Manages a team of 60 members in charge of the production of boards in the Philippines.
• Works closely with other departments to ensure achievement of production targets to cater to the requirement of the different markets.
• Collaborates with the production team of other James Hardie Plants in the Asia Pacific region for product and machine improvements.
• Prepares and implements Monthly Product Run Plan and shutdown schedules.
• Analyzes sources of and recommends measures to minimize product rejects.
• Manages product components that are critical-to-quality.
• Analyzes contributing factors and makes recommendations to improve production efficiencies.
• Evaluates and maximizes utilization of each machine part to achieve cost efficiencies.
• Implements and reinforces policies and procedures to ensure a safe work environment for the employees.
• Manages all yield project A3 projects.
• Leading the team celebrating wins and records
• Driving safety, quality, efficiency, people and cost projects, cost savings
• Initiates cross training to all team line up.
• Dotted line managing asia pacific machines.
• Manages America texas machine designing and commissioning.
• Set up visual management of the manufacturing plant.
• Scheduler for the unplanned and planned shutdown
• Purchases all running spares for the main machine.

PLANT GENERAL FOREMAN   / JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES                       

MARCH 2011 – APRIL 2012

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Over sees operations of the mixing plant, sheet machine, stacker, procure and autoclaving.
• Manages the team in charge of pipe maintenance.
• Leads the machine shutdown activities.
• Prepares required machine spare parts.
• Supports the Production Manager in the execution of activities according to the production standards and plan.

MANUFACTURING SUPERVISOR / JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES           

FEBRUARY 2008 – FEBRUARY 2011     

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Plans, directs, organizes, coordinates and controls wet-end shift production activities and personnel to provide cured products, which comply with customer, government and corporate requirement.
• Controls in-process tests and repairs of equipment to increase process and material efficiencies.
• Ensures team compliance and full implementation of company Environmental Health & Safety policies and programs.
• Manages and ensures team production efficiency and effectiveness.
• Eliminates process waste in terms of material loss and delays,
• Ensures all processes are within specifications and products are within standards.
• Ensures no deviation from agreed run plan, scheduling and placing manning day to day. 
• Manages controllable cost.
• Develops capability, competency, and readiness of team members, sets root cause analysis meeting.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Decreases all B- performer by doing performance management to all employees, disciplinary actions raise and reinforce company values bended to all
• Injecting high 5s standard to all areas and machines of the plant
• Setting up standards to all process deviation made by the team and everyone.
• Resolving all issues of team by data analysis 
• Boost and contribute to all team effort to provide huge team and numbers of results.
• Dealing immediately to all personnel related issues by performance management and by engaging all to company rules and policies.
• Quality focus that leads to low rejection rate
• Engaging all team member to work on a safely manner, to take care of each other on the shop floor.
• Manages and does tracking of all log sheets compliance at all areas of the factory.
• Embracing step change when needed
• Help on to bridge union employees to management by influencing and coaching to their right path.

MACHINE LEAD / JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES                                          

YEAR 2004 – YEAR 2008     

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Ensures continuous run of the Sheet Machine and Stacker Machine
• Formulates solutions in anticipation of possible problems in the "Machine Zone."
• Ensures the correct batching of mix per product.
• Ensures alignment with the standard product dimensions and quality.
• Provides solution to machine-related problems.
• Leads and drives achievement of the team’s production targets.
• Monitors safety of workplace and safety of people working in the machine zone
• Monitors availability of raw materials needed per shift.
• Prepares reports and production status updates.
• Trains sheet machine driver and stacker operator

ROLLER / OPERATOR / JAMES HARDIE PHILIPPINES              

YEAR 2001- YEAR 2004       

WORK DESCRIPTION:

• Ensures continuous run of the main machine.
• Task of doing the full responsibility of machine housekeeping
• Delivering plant KPI for main machine
• Ensuring all raw materials are within the specs.
• Driving the stable troubleshooting for process machine
• Participants during down days
• Responsible for documentations and logs
• Responsible for driving the scrap, delay and cost of product.

College                                                   Dual Tech College, Canlubang Calamba Laguna                         2001

                                                              B.S. Electro-Mechanical

Secondary                                              Liceo de Paete High School                                           1999

                                                              Paete Laguna

Primary                                                  Paete Elementary School                                               1995

                                                             Paete Laguna