Team Lead Production

Location: Hershey, PA. Openings available on both 2nd and 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. Beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, and Ice Breakers. Hershey is committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business, a commitment that originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.

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 corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes a 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.

About the role

As a Production Supervisor at our West Hershey plant, you will lead a fast-paced, high-speed manufacturing environment producing some of Hershey’s most iconic products. This night shift position supports a union plant and involves 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 to meet schedule, quality, safety, cost, and customer delivery expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support hourly production teams to meet daily and weekly plant goals while reinforcing safe, quality-focused, and productive work practices.
• Coordinate activities across shifts and departments to maintain strong production flow, effective handoffs, labor staffing, and timely issue resolution.
• Monitor production data, downtime, scrap trends, throughput, QA documentation, time cards, and other operating results to identify exceptions and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with maintenance and reliability teams to submit, prioritize, and follow up on SAP PM notifications, recurring equipment issues, downtime plans, and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, employee safety, quality, environmental, administrative, handbook, regulatory, company, and plant standards.
• Use problem-solving and continuous improvement practices to address root causes, support trials or process changes, train operators, update documentation, and strengthen area performance.
• Build an engaged team by ensuring employees are trained, qualified, motivated, and included in identifying ideas that positively impact West Hershey operations.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Benefits

• 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.