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Coordinator Manufacturing

Posted Date:  Oct 1, 2026
Requisition Number:  130538

Location: Planta Escobedo, NL, 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? 

As Coordinator Manufacturing, you will help deliver the production plan safely, efficiently, and at standard cost while protecting product quality and food safety. You will lead assigned production teams, strengthen Hershey Lean ways of working, and partner across the plant to improve performance in the Sweetest Place on Earth. 

 

What will you do? 

  • Lead day-to-day production execution to achieve volume and product-mix plans while improving efficiency, OEE2, waste, rework, and overweight performance. 
  • Champion environmental, health, and safety requirements and reinforce a prevention-focused culture across assigned production areas. 
  • Ensure adherence to quality, food-safety, sanitation, and standard operating procedures; identify and correct deviations promptly. 
  • Lead assigned union production employees, including staffing, time and attendance administration, training, operational discipline, and employee development. 
  • Ensure end-of-shift production information is complete and accurate, including finished product, rework, waste, returns, material requirements, overweight, and downtime data. 
  • Apply Hershey Lean practices, including CIL, centerlines, defect handling, and the Autonomous Maintenance pillar, and participate in safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity improvements. 
  • Collaborate with Warehouse, Maintenance, Sanitation, Quality, Planning, Finance, EHS, Engineering, Operational Excellence, Human Resources, corporate teams, and suppliers as applicable. 

Minimum Requirements 

Experience: 2+ years as a supervisor or team leader in a manufacturing production environment. Experience in manufacturing support functions such as Quality, Maintenance, Warehouse, or Operational Excellence is preferred. 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field. Intermediate English proficiency. 

Knowledge and Skills: Working knowledge of manufacturing systems or methods such as TPM, Lean Management, or Six Sigma; Good Manufacturing Practices; HACCP; industrial safety; and union workforce administration. Demonstrated service leadership, ownership mindset, effective communication, sound decision-making, and interpersonal skills.

 

 

 

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