We have an exciting opportunity for a Flow Controller to join our team in Deeside on a full time permanent basis.
Salary: £28,505 per annum, plus £2,000 shift allowance.
Working hours: 4 on 4 off, 7am-7pm/7pm-7am rotating.
As the Flow Controller, you will be responsible for optimizing the end-to-end movement of customer orders within our fulfilment centre, ensuring 24-hour delivery, balancing workload capacity, and maximizing efficiency. This role involves high-level analysis of data to reduce risk, improve speed, and resolve bottlenecks between Picking and Shipping of customer orders.
Responsibilities of the Flow Controller include:
Operational Control: Managing the flow of work (Picking, Packing, Sorting, Rebinning) to keep workstations fully utilized while meeting demand, using specialized, high-tech systems, including: CROP, AFTX, Ledger, CORA, Picking Console, Lagrange, Packman, Slack, whilst maintaining constant and proactive communication with OB Operations team regarding shipment workflow status.
Data Analysis: Using large datasets and tools to uncover bottlenecks, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions to keep the workflow balanced and risk down. Ability to evaluate and dive deep workflow data is essential.
Workflow Management: Creating hourly plans, tracking critical pull time (CPT), and managing service level agreements (SLAs) for multiple process paths. Ensure procedures are followed for flow management and daily execution.
Labour Planning: Liasing with shift leaders to efficiently move headcount when risk is identified and always ensure risk is balanced across multiple paths.
Plan Optimization: Using multiple Screens and tools to track processes, rates and risk and adjust flow settings to ensure hourly plans are accurate and followed by OB team.
Collaboration: Working with shift leaders, senior management, and CI team to implement process improvements across the operation.
Apply on company website Deeside, United Kingdom On-site Full-time GBP 28,505 / year
Culina Group is hiring a Flow Controller **Internal Applicants Only**
About company
We are a market leading ambient and chilled food & drink 3PL specialist, providing warehousing, distribution, contract packing and a bonded division with extensive expertise in relation to dutiable goods across the UK and Ireland. We have recently added both Fresh and Food Manufacturing divisions and are looking towards the future and the continuation of being one of the leading logistics companies within the UK.
Using modern IT infrastructure, including warehouse management systems, satellite tracking and client interfaces we are able to offer unrivalled customer support, ensuring that you always know where your products are. Online up to date data is always available through customer web portals allowing you to track your goods from anywhere, while a significant investment of over £2.5m in customer service infrastructure over the last five years ensures that we exceed customer expectations not just once or twice, but every single time.
Working hand in hand with some of the globe's leading brands and manufacturers is an everyday event at Culina Group, plus with a multitude of own-label producers and developing companies, all are catered for with an efficient and flexible infrastructure. Importantly, our strategic focus is on food & drink logistics within a shared-user environment, which is driven by volume and critical mass. This ultimately delivers an efficient and cost effective solution for clients of all sizes.
We are committed to future proofing our business by investing in teams, network, systems, sector and the environment, which will ensure we continue to provide clients with a robust supply chain platform which performs beyond expectations every day. The latest two service additions of Fresh and Food Manufacturing are testament to this ethos, ensuring that we continue to become a leading light within the logistics industry.