Global seafood company modernizing manufacturing operations and data infrastructure
Bumble Bee Foods operates a sprawling manufacturing and distribution network across North America and 50+ markets, supported by a tech stack mixing legacy industrial systems (SCADA, PLC, HMI) with modern cloud and BI tools (Snowflake, Power BI, Azure). Active projects signal a shift toward predictive operations: the company is implementing predictive maintenance, building real-time visibility pipelines from SCADA to Power BI, and adopting SAP Business One—a pattern typical of food manufacturers moving from reactive maintenance to data-driven plant optimization. Hiring acceleration in manufacturing and data roles reflects this transformation.
Notable leadership hires: IT Operations Director, Sales Director
Bumble Bee Foods is a publicly traded seafood company headquartered in San Diego, operating across the United States, Canada, and 50+ international markets under brands including Bumble Bee, Brunswick, Clover Leaf, Snow's, Wild Selections, and Beach Cliff. The company manufactures and distributes canned and specialty seafood products through a network of manufacturing facilities. Operations span production, quality control, supply chain, and commercial functions. The organization is scaling its data and manufacturing engineering teams while modernizing its operational technology stack to improve plant uptime, food safety compliance, and production efficiency.
Bumble Bee uses Ignition, Power BI, and SCADA for plant operations; Snowflake, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL for data; SAP for enterprise resource planning; and Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive) for collaboration. They are currently adopting SAP Business One.
Current initiatives include predictive maintenance implementation, SCADA ecosystem architecture, building real-time operations visibility pipelines from industrial systems to Power BI and SharePoint, IT/OT security protocols, and in-process quality control system implementation.
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