Senior Manager, Technical Assurance

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 Manager, Technical Assurance is the site technical leader responsible for the reliability, effectiveness, and continuous improvement of manufacturing assets and infrastructure. As a member of the plant senior leadership team, this role leads engineering, maintenance, facilities, utilities, information systems, and third-party technical services while shaping site strategy and enabling safe, high-quality, and reliable operations.

What will you do?

• Lead the site capital plan and large engineering projects, aligning priorities, resources, scope, schedule, budget, technical standards, and governance.

• Build short-term engineering and asset reliability plans that translate site and organizational strategy into predictable execution across multiple workstreams.

• Direct preventive and predictive maintenance, facilities, utilities, and waste-treatment activities to improve equipment and infrastructure reliability.

• Manage major technical risks, dependencies, and escalations affecting safety, quality, cost, timelines, or operations, and drive corrective action with cross-functional partners.

• Provide clear portfolio updates, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and represent the plant on cross-functional project and technology initiatives.

• Develop managers, supervisors, engineers, and technical teams through coaching, capability building, clear accountability, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 7+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing engineering, technical assurance, asset reliability, maintenance, utilities, project management, or capital administration. Experience leading technical teams and complex engineering programs required; food and beverage or consumer packaged goods experience preferred.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, another science degree with significant technical content. Master’s degree in engineering or an MBA is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Working knowledge of TPM, SAP, capital controls, engineering standards, food safety, and GMPs.

• Strong data-based problem solving, financial stewardship, stakeholder communication, and people leadership skills.

• 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.

• The anticipated base salary range for this role is $156,080 to $195,100 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skill set, education, and training. In addition to a market-competitive base salary, our Total Rewards package includes performance-based incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial well-being.

• 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.