The Workforce Management in Manufacturing and Warehousing Summit 2026 is being hosted in Chicago and brings together manufacturing, operations, and workforce leaders to discuss strategies for improving productivity, workforce planning, and frontline performance in increasingly complex manufacturing environments.
Join Pacific Seafood and Schoox on November 18 from 12:10-12:40pm CT for the session Scaling a Multigenerational Frontline Workforce: Building the Talent Behind Pacific Seafood’s Plan to Double in Size.
Pacific Seafood, the largest vertically integrated seafood company in North America, is on a bold trajectory: double the company’s size within seven years largely through acquisition. That growth brings real workforce complexity. Pacific Seafood’s 3,500+ team members span 40 facilities across the U.S., Canada, and Chile, working in everything from sustainable aquaculture to processing and distribution. They also represent multiple generations and many first-generation Americans learning their jobs in a language that isn’t their own.
In this session, Bill Hueffner will share how the company is turning learning into a growth strategy rather than a compliance checkbox. Hear how Pacific Seafood rolled out mobile-first, video-driven microlearning to reach frontline workers who’d never had real access to structured development; how newly acquired teams get onboarded and brought up to speed fast; and how the company is connecting performance reviews, goal setting, and succession planning into one system to build the next generation of leaders from within.