Wood Flooring Factory, West Pomerania: PLN 25.36 Net, Students 31.40, Housing for Couples

A wooden flooring factory in a pretty little town on the shore of three lakes, at the edge of a forest. They take both women and men, and married couples get shared housing.

Every workshop is a separate production line and the worker stays at one station all the time. Whoever works on a machine loads the log, takes out the sawn boards and watches the accuracy of the cut; the rest sort, stack and pack.

Main duties

• work on wood-processing machines of different sizes: load the blank, take out and stack boards on pallets, watch the accuracy of the cut;
• sort boards on a conveyor: take material from one belt and lay it in the right order on another (up to 4 hours of non-stop work);
• clear sawdust and waste from under the lines and take sawdust, offcuts and bark out to containers;
• move material to a new pallet and collect wooden battens that have spilled;
• women: work with small, light boards or in the shop that removes knots from timber, move four-metre boards two at a time, unpack material from the drying kiln, stack raw oak boards with spacers, pack and trim long boards with an electric saw;
• men: work with heavier boards, and in the warehouse stack and pack boards in large crates.

Pay

• average pay is PLN 4,000 to 6,100 net a month;
• PLN 25.36 net per hour — the standard rate;
• PLN 31.40 net per hour — for people aged 18 to 26 with a student certificate (they help you get one if needed).

Work schedule

• 8 hours, three shifts;
• 170 to 210 hours a month;
• the schedule changes every week.

Candidate requirements

• willingness to do physical work and to repeat the same operation without losing attention;
• for students — a certificate of student status.

Employment

The advert does not state the type of contract — ask about it during the call.

• the employer helps you get the student certificate.

Housing

Housing is provided by the employer. Workers live in hostels, houses and flats, 3–4 to a room, and married couples live together (two couples to a room). There is everything needed for living and rest, Wi-Fi and a fridge. Utilities are PLN 250 a month.

Transport

The advert does not mention travel, so ask how to get from the housing to the factory.

Additional

• in every workshop one person stays at one station;
• women mostly work with lighter material, men with heavier.

Workplace

Wooden flooring factory, a small town at the edge of a forest (West Pomeranian voivodeship).