Team Lead Production
Why Hershey:
At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey’s enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom. Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day.
Location: Hershey, PA
This position has openings on both 2nd & 3rd shift.
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?
As a Production Supervisor at our West Hershey plant, you will help lead a fast-paced, high-speed manufacturing environment that produces some of Hershey’s most iconic products. This is a night shift position supporting a union plant and partnering across production, maintenance, quality, EHS, planning, and engineering to deliver safe, reliable, and high-quality results.
You will manage daily production execution, support financial and staffing plans, and coach hourly team members while helping your area meet schedule, quality, safety, cost, and customer delivery expectations.
What will you do?
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Lead and support hourly production teams to meet daily and weekly plant goals while reinforcing safe, quality-focused, and productive work practices.
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Coordinate activities across shifts and departments to maintain strong production flow, effective handoffs, labor staffing, and timely issue resolution.
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Monitor production data, downtime, scrap trends, throughput, QA documentation, time cards, and other operating results to identify exceptions and improvement opportunities.
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Partner with maintenance and reliability teams to submit, prioritize, and follow up on SAP PM notifications, recurring equipment issues, downtime plans, and corrective actions.
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Ensure compliance with food safety, employee safety, quality, environmental, administrative, handbook, regulatory, company, and plant standards.
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Use problem-solving and continuous improvement practices to address root causes, support trials or process changes, train operators, update documentation, and strengthen area performance.
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Build an engaged team by ensuring employees are trained, qualified, motivated, and included in identifying ideas that positively impact West Hershey operations.
Minimum Requirements
Experience:
- 3+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing, production operations, or a high-speed, complex environment required. Experience leading or supervising others, food manufacturing experience, SAP experience, and Microsoft Office Suite experience are preferred.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
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.
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Health & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health
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Financial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match
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Time Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable
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Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility
Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility.
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans.
You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability.
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To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.
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