Meet the Team - William Holland-McKinlay

Hi Will, tell us what your role is at Timage.

I organise and order packaging, obtain carriage costs for quotes, book carriers and check their related invoices. I also do some technical work such as building and soldering LED light kits, assembling transom gates and welding, as well as general warehouse work – picking, packing, using the forklift, and loading and unloading lorries.

How long have you been with Timage?

In the second week of February I will have been here for a year.

What do you enjoy about working at Timage?

We all get on well and the days go very quickly because we are so busy, particularly in the last 6 months. In the warehouse we work well together, every morning we have 10 minutes where we talk and plan out our day, obviously we have to deviate from the plan sometimes, but it is nice that we know what our jobs are for that day and can crack on.

What do you enjoy doing outside of work?

BMX – going to the skate park, dirt jumps, seeing my mates. My friend and I have a set of dirt jumps so over the winter we have been going there at the weekends and working on them, digging, trying to get them sorted. Anything BMX or bike related.

What was your first job?

Billingsgate Fish Market – That was my first job whilst I was at secondary school, on Saturdays, with my cousins Husband. He was the part owner of a stall there. I used to wake up at 1 in the morning to be picked up, I would get there early hours of the morning and be back at home by 12 in the afternoon. It was hard work.

What do you want to be when you were growing up?

An inventor is something I remember wanting to be when I was little, I am quite good at coming up with ideas, it is just putting the ideas down on paperwork that I struggle with. So, and inventor – to create something that would change the world.

If you could click your fingers and become an expert in anything, what would it be?

I would like to be bilingual. Not a particular language, any language really. Bilingual is two languages so maybe multi-lingual. I would like to learn Japanese or Mandarin, or Spanish. When you have the basics in that you can sort of vaguely understand other languages – Italian, Portuguese etc. Any language other than confusing old English.

If you were stranded on a desert island and could have 3 items with you, what would they be?

People would probably say a phone, but what use is a phone if you somewhere with no signal, maybe a satellite phone because that way you always have signal. Something to keep me shaded, and a watermaker – to change the seawater to drinking water. But I would need power, so take away the shade and give me a generator so I can use the watermaker.

What is your favourite Timage product?

It is a hard question, but it will be the transom gates. I spend a lot of time assembling them, it can be a little pain sometimes, but it is nice to see them on the boats and yachts knowing that I assembled them.

What 3 words would you use to describe your time at Timage?

Busy, fun – it is fun learning about the products, so educational too.

If you had a boat, what would you call it?

It is a difficult one because it is bad luck to change a boats name once you have picked one – it would have to be the correct name for the boat. It is one of those things, if I saw the boat, I would know what I want to call it there and then.