Rico Kahuroa
Kingston
Summary
Professionalism towards store requirements, with strong work ethic skills. Skilled in developing relationships with co-workers and clients. A+ problem solver towards any kind of conflict and task, with an on-going bubbly personality to keep the workplace happy. I am currently seeking a challenging and highly successful company to observe my strengths and goals. I look forward to hearing from you!
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Purchasing Administrator/Senior Dispatcher/Stores Controller
Intellidesign Pty Ltd
01.2024 - Current
- Assisted in processing purchase order confirmations and vendor invoices, ensuring timely fulfillment of procurement needs.
- Maintained accurate inventory records using in house built systems to support supply chain efficiency.
- Coordinated with suppliers to resolve discrepancies and ensure compliance with purchasing agreements.
- Collaborated with internal departments to forecast demand and establish purchasing schedules, aligning inventory levels with operational needs.
- Managed purchase orders from initiation to delivery, ensuring accurate documentation and timely fulfillment of requests.
- Resolved disputes with suppliers professionally, maintaining positive working relationships while protecting the company''s interests.
- Ensured dispatching of end products in timely manner. Assured all dangerous goods had correct documentation and labelling adhering to International Air Transport Association (IATA) guidelines.
Warehouse Officer/Senior Staff Member
WSA Audiology
01.2019 - 01.2024
- Warehouse Officer/ Senior Staff Member for Widex Australia/ Logistics quality representative (5S)
- My duties include data entry of hearing aid products and invoices to customers. Packaging of hearing aid devices/ chargers/ accessories. Fitting hearing aid components such as hearing receivers and child lock components. Handling of customer order sheets and sorting into hearing aid markets.
- Handling damaged goods sent back from customers. Handling of Sales Force Cases such as complaints and re-orders + VIP customer orders.
- Working with customer service to ensure same day agreement orders get processed and arrive to our customers on time.
- For WSA AUDIOLOGY I was hand picked to work in Canada for a month as part of a Global Go Live project team. I was the only one from Australia that went and many of our employees travelled from around the world to assist also. This Included supporting our Canada WSA site with new processing systems they are now using to process hearing aid data and invoices. Assisting in quality workups for the office and warehouse and overall helping Canada WSA transition as smooth as possible. It was fun! This was in the months of April – May 2023. After Canada I was straight into completing my Leadership program course.
Production line team member/Voice Picker
Kmart DC
01.2019 - 11.2019
- Duties Involved.
- Record product, packaging, and order information on specified forms and records. Examine and inspect products to ensure that packing specifications are met. Count products and materials.
- Mark and label containers, or products, using marking tools. Clean warehousing products. Remove completed or defective products or materials, placing them on moving equipment such as conveyors or in specified areas such as loading docks.
- Obtain, move, and sort products, materials, containers, and orders. Store completed documents in appropriate locations. Locate and correct data entry errors, or report them to supervisors. Select materials needed to complete work assignments.
Pick Packer/General Hand
DHL Supply Chain
- Paper picking products for chemist warehouses. Labelling products as they were picked with location, quantity, and product barcodes.
- Use of RF scanning guns to ensure correct product information was sent to customers. Use of EPJ (electric pallet jacks) to move and stage pallets in correct lanes in which each of those lanes were directed as one chemist warehouse store.
- A high demand for attention to detail as this job required paper picking in which it can be easy to make a mistake, also general warehouse duties such as cleaning and wiping down products before packing them onto pallets and sending them to customers.
Education
Year 12 Diploma -
Lytton High School
01.2015
Level 3 Certification - Health And Fitness
Te Wananga O Aotearoa
01-2016
Skills
- Purchase order processing
- Document preparation
- Supplier relations
- Resourcefulness
- Data analysis
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking
- Excellent communication
- Excel
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 5 staff members whilst on secondment for 3 weeks for Intellidesign.
- Gained Value Award with bonus from intellidesign for exceeding work requirements and taking on extra duties outside of my daily tasks.
- Hand picked for Go Live Project in Canada for 3 weeks whilst working for WSA audiology.
- Gained Dangerous goods certificate
- Gained First Aid & CPR certificate
Certification
- Level 3 Health & Fitness certificate – 2016.
- First Aid & CPR certificate - 2025
- Plant Process Manufacturing Level 3 certificate – 2017
- Confined Space Level 3 certificate – 2017
- Open Licence
- Completed a Leadership program under employer WSA Audiology.
Timeline
Purchasing Administrator/Senior Dispatcher/Stores Controller
Intellidesign Pty Ltd
01.2024 - Current
Warehouse Officer/Senior Staff Member
WSA Audiology
01.2019 - 01.2024
Production line team member/Voice Picker
Kmart DC
01.2019 - 11.2019
Pick Packer/General Hand
DHL Supply Chain
Year 12 Diploma -
Lytton High School
Level 3 Certification - Health And Fitness
Te Wananga O Aotearoa