Sr Mgr Technical Assurance

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. Location: Hershey, PA

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.

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