Name: Massimiliano Gorgolini
Class: 1971
Origin: Pesaro
Precise, tenacious and perseverant, lover of autobiographies and former Taekwondo champion. He hung up the Dobok to devote himself to cycling.
Massimiliano, you are one of Omag’s historical people, have you always been in the purchasing department?
I have been with Omag since September 1992, so that’s 32 years, twenty of them as head of the purchasing department.
When I arrived, there were still only a few of us, and as in any small company, everyone was in charge of several things at once. So I started in the workshop, working on the lathe, and then moved on to machine assembly. Later, as the company grew, I moved to the purchasing department but that was not my only responsibility. I was also in charge of the warehouse: I therefore ordered components from suppliers or from colleagues in the workshop, and once I received them I was then in charge of storing them in the various racks and registering them. When it was time to assemble them on the packaging machines I would pick them up and record them. Twenty years ago we still did not have vertical warehouses that made our lives easier, it was all done manually!
The time spent with my fingers in the pie comes in very handy in my current work, to actually realize the timing and components needed in the machine.