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AFC: Automation Flow Controller

Job details
Posting date: 27 June 2025
Salary: £13.06 to £16.52 per hour
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 July 2025
Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK17 8EW
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Guidant Group
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: JLP Magna Park AFC_1751032773

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Summary

Inside of the John Lewis Distribution Center at Magna Park 1 & 2, there are miles and miles of conveyors, called the Automation, on which containers, called totes and cartons, travel or flow.

At any point during their journey there's a possibility for the container totes to become stuck, or crash.

It is the role of the AFC: Automation Flow Controller to clear those crashes, report the issues and ensure a continuous flow of containers.
Ideal qualities of an AFC

  • Physicality: You should be prepared to climb ladders, go up and down lots of stairs and walk between 14 000 and 32 000 steps in a day

  • Mentality: You must be able to manage your own frustration and deal with a fair amount of pressure

  • Technicality: Develop a working understanding of how the Automation functions, what the parts are called and how to report problems to control room

  • Communication: As an AFC, you need be be able to clearly communicate over the radio

  • Autonomy: An ability to self govern. AFC's don't always have direct oversight, you need to be able to put yourself to task

  • Awareness: Being able to spread your perception over a large area, spot small changes in flow and be aware of potential risks

  • A sense of urgency: The role of AFC is critical to the productivity of the operation. It is important both, physically and visually, that AFC's respond with haste

Following is a list of duties that is expected of an AFC

  • Clear crashes

  • Listen and respond to requests over the radio

  • Report on crashes and faults

  • Error handle various machinery

  • Monitor and report on flow

  • Housekeeping

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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