Packaged salad manufacturer scaling production efficiency and supply chain compliance
Fresh Express manufactures and distributes packaged salads and ready-to-eat produce across North American retail chains. The tech stack reflects a mature manufacturing operation: legacy systems (DB2, AS/400, EDI) coupled with modern ERP (Workday, ServiceNow) and inventory control (WMS, Circana demand planning). Active hiring is concentrated in production and operations roles, with a secondary push into compliance and process documentation — suggesting aggressive capacity expansion paired with internal control tightening.
Notable leadership hires: Crew Lead, Production Line Lead, Marketing Director
Fresh Express is a category leader in value-added salads and packaged fresh produce, operating since 1930 with headquarters in Windermere, Florida. The company serves grocery retailers nationwide with over 100 SKU variants, reaching more than 14 million consumers weekly. Manufacturing and logistics form the operational core, supported by transactional systems, compliance frameworks, and product innovation initiatives. Current focus areas include equipment reliability, inventory variance reduction, waste minimization, and cost containment across growing production volumes.
Core systems: DB2, AS/400, EDI, Workday, ServiceNow, WMS, Circana, ADP, Oracle, SQL. Operational tools: Vocollect voice systems, CMMS maintenance software, Configuration Manager, Cisco Unified Communications, PLC automation, and Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, Access).
Key operational priorities: reducing equipment downtime and product waste, improving inventory accuracy, maximizing throughput within labor budgets, maintaining fleet and internal control compliance, and sustaining profitability alongside volume growth.
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