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Sr Supervisor Production

Posted Date:  Sep 15, 2026
Requisition Number:  130246

Location: El Salto, Jal, MX.

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 Sr Supervisor Production leads manufacturing operations for an assigned business unit, delivering the production plan safely, on time, and with strong quality, food safety, cost, and people performance. This role directs production leaders and operators, coordinates support from Maintenance, Quality, EHS, and Services, and promotes a healthy, collaborative workplace.

 

What will you do?

· Lead shift priorities and daily production execution using labor, materials, and fixed assets effectively.

· Build a prevention-focused safety, health, and environmental culture; identify and report unsafe conditions and acts promptly.

· Ensure compliance with food safety, quality, sanitation, GMP, HACCP, SQF, and company standards.

· Apply Hershey Lean practices and daily management routines to improve productivity, reduce defects, and sustain continuous improvement.

· Coach leaders and operators, maintain training readiness, address employee concerns, and administer attendance and schedule-related records.

· Monitor safety, quality, waste, rework, efficiency, OEE, inventory, conformance, turnover, and absenteeism metrics; validate operating data in SAP/AIM.

Minimum Requirements

Experience: 1+ years of relevant manufacturing or production leadership experience, including supervision of operational teams. Experience with Lean manufacturing, production planning, problem solving, statistics, Excel, and SAP is required.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Food Engineering, or a related field.

Working knowledge of labor requirements, industrial and site security, and strong people leadership, urgency, communication, initiative, and sound judgment are required. Basic conversational English is required.

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