Let’s start with the experience that you brought to MELACO? Were your previous jobs related to the furniture industry?

Yes, the industry was similar, but the product was different. At the beginning of my professional career, I worked with furniture, only wooden. The next position was also related to the industry, but the company I was working for at the time produced garden furniture. At that time, I was also a technologist, as in MELACO, but before I came here, I was also working as a production manager. It was a small company dealing with terraces and roofing. We used wood and composites there. So you can say that I have always been associated with the industry, however, in MELACO I have contact with furniture elements made of wood-like boards for the first time.

So you have a lot of experience and a broad picture of the industry. Is the work of a technologist similar in each of these places or are there differences?

What is characteristic of furniture is definitely very high accuracy. Each element must be accurate to 0.2 millimetres. With outdoor furniture, for example, these tolerances are larger and less important. Apart from that, everything is rather similar.

Does this mean that the work of a technologist is also similar? Tools and programs are the same?

No, definitely not. For me, everything has changed at MELACO, because while I had dealt with numerical machines before, here we work on Italian systems that I have not dealt with before. Machines are machines, and their principle of operation is always the same, but I had to face new software.

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The products that MELACO offers are also different. Here I met with completely new technologies, e.g. FOLDING or MICRO MILLING™, we have a 3D press, edge and slats banders. So there are a lot of new things to learn and master.

How do you find yourself among these novelties so far?

This question is for Mr Marek, who introduces me to my duties (laughs). Seriously though, we have a division here that allows me to get used to working gradually. A senior colleague is responsible for the processes of vacuum pressing and continuous lamination, I am more on the side of the production of COMPLETE SKIN DOOR furniture forms, i.e. I am responsible, among others, for the processes of glueing narrow surfaces and for processing on numerically controlled drills.

Is the technologist’s work repeatable? Do you come to work with a ready plan and carry out tasks according to the schedule?

It’s more dynamic. We check production on an ongoing basis and adapt to what we have to do at the moment. There is a certain plan, but sometimes orders that have a high priority come in and then our schedule has to be modified. We have to adapt tasks to orders that are urgent at the moment.

You have been working here since May. Is there anything that is still difficult for you or is still a big challenge?

As for the line I’m responsible for, probably not. What is definitely ahead of me is the management of the presses, which is not in my hands at the moment. I still have little knowledge in this area, so this will definitely be another challenge in its time.

We always ask our interviewees whether working in the industry changes their view of the furniture they buy for their homes. Has anything changed in your case under the influence of your previous jobs or after these few months at MELACO?

No, in my case it looks a bit different because I’ve always been surrounded by wood. My dad is a carpenter with almost 50 years of experience, so the topic of furniture production has always been close to my heart. Working in the industry has not changed my approach or how I look at stores’ products.

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So wood accompanied you at school, today it accompanies you at work, and after hours? Is there time for other hobbies?

Definitely, my hobby is riding a motorcycle. For 3 years I have had a road-touring Honda CBF, which I drive as soon as the opportunity arises, and also to work when the weather is good.

In that case, we wish you many exciting motorcycle trips and interesting challenges at work. Thank you for the interview.

Thank you.