Senior Executive Technical

About The Hershey Company The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.

At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.

Guided by our employee value proposition, Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.

The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.

How will you fit in the big picture? The Senior Executive Technical is responsible for end-to-end manufacturing shift operations for Soy Beverages, Milkshakes, Syrups, and Fruit Purees. This role ensures safe, compliant, efficient, and cost-effective operations across processing, sterilization, filling, packaging, palletization, and warehouse handover activities while delivering production, quality, service, and productivity targets.

What will you do?

• Lead end-to-end manufacturing operations to achieve safety, quality, service, and productivity targets.
• Ensure process excellence across batching, processing, sterilization, filling, packaging, and palletization.
• Drive food safety, quality compliance, GMP, HACCP, and regulatory requirements.
• Maximize equipment reliability, OEE, and cost efficiency through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and develop shop-floor teams through manpower deployment and capability building.
• Manage production prioritization, quality containment, and escalation of operational issues.
• Drive TPM, Lean, productivity improvement, automation, and loss-reduction initiatives.

Minimum Education & Requirements Experience:

3-6 years of experience in Food & Beverage Manufacturing with expertise in end-to-end processing, packaging, production management, quality systems, continuous improvement, and SAP/Power BI-driven performance monitoring. Knowledge of beverage manufacturing operations, food safety systems, TPM/Lean methodologies, equipment troubleshooting, inventory management, and team leadership is required.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Food Technology, Dairy Technology, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation, or a related discipline.

Benefits And Perks At Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work.

• Health & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health
• Financial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match
• Time Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable
• Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility

Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility.