Team Lead Production

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.

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. 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.

About the role

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 position supports a union plant and partners 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. This role has openings on both 2nd and 3rd shift.

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.

Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Benefits

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.