Kevin Castle

Providing customers with a quick and accurate service. Working closely with other employees to ensure all other jobs were completed. Ensuring the shop floor was tidy to meet health and safety standards.

Shop Floor Assistant at Lidl (2006-01 – 2007-06)

• Providing customers with a quick and accurate service.
• Working closely with other employees to ensure all other jobs were completed.
• Ensuring the shop floor was tidy to meet health and safety standards.
• Unloading goods first thing in the morning to restock the shelves.
• Stock Checking.
• Liaising with customers on a day-to-day basis.

Purchasing Officer at Ministry of Defence (2007-08 – 2022-12)

• Ordering stock using my business account card.
• Salvaging old or unwanted items using the compacter machine.
• Selecting space for storage and arranging for goods to be placed in designated areas.
• Filing paperwork and the end of each day.
• Ensuring orders have the correct quantity and the right items are in each package.
• Ensuring all urgent jobs are sent out to reach the customers in time.
• Dispatch all orders at the end of the working day.
• Dealing with customer collections.
• Preparing courier paperwork and accurately processing orders.
• Loading packages on to the lorry on a daily basis.
• Using Mechanical Handling Equipment.
• Labelling all packages and making sure they are all scanned into the system.

Assistant Warehouse Manager at Ministry of Defence (2022-12 – Present)

• Organising team meetings
• Risk assessments
• Assigning team duties daily
• Filing paperwork at the end of each day
• Dealing with safety critical products
• Picking and Packing orders.
• Stock checking.
• Dealing with customer queries

Shop Floor Assistant at Wickes (2014-12 – 2016-12)

Evening Job

• Helping customers with any queries.
• Unloading lorry of incoming goods.
• Putting stock to shelf.
• General cleaning duties
• Stock control.
• Dealing with Click & Collect for customers.

Shop Floor Assistant at Homebase (2018-02 – 2020-10)

Evening Job

• Dealing with any customer queries to the best of my ability.
• Working on the tills.
• Greeting customers.
• Picking orders for customers.
• Stock control.
• Cleaning duties at the end of each shift.
• Having good knowledge about products so I can give advice to customers.

GCSE – St. Pauls Catholic College (1999 – 2004)

Level 2 NVQ in Plumbing – Feltham Skills Centre (2004 – 2005)