Packaging Engineer

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Posted Date:

Aug 26, 2026

Requisition Number:

129536

Location: Hershey, PA

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.

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 into the big picture?

This role supports the design, testing, and implementation of packaging solutions for new and existing products under guidance from senior engineers. The Packaging Engineer contributes to projects that ensure product protection, quality, cost effectiveness, and sustainability. The position provides hands-on learning opportunities in manufacturing environments, supporting plant trials, start-ups, and issue resolution while gaining exposure to packaging equipment and production processes. The engineer assists with material evaluation, performance testing, specification development, and documentation. The role works cross-functionally with commercial partners, operations, maintenance, equipment engineering, procurement, and suppliers to ensure packaging solutions align with manufacturing capabilities, regulatory requirements, and business needs.

The position is expected to manage a mix of low-to-medium complexity commercial projects which require fundamental packaging technology expertise. As a representative on project teams, the position is expected to advocate the best interests of packaging via sharing of technical knowledge, gathering fact-based data, providing analytics, and implementing solutions which deliver against project scope and expectations.

What will you do?

Product & Packaging Development/Commercialization

• Develop and commercialize packaging solutions that meet project objectives, product protection, quality, cost, sustainability, and manufacturing requirements.
• Design, review, test, and recommend packaging concepts for primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging.
• Evaluate packaging materials, structures, and automation impacts to optimize efficiency while maintaining product integrity and retail performance.
• Develop and execute testing methodologies, analyze results, and communicate technical findings to stakeholders.
• Coordinate equipment, line, and distribution trials to validate packaging material