Sr Engineer Mechanical
 The Hershey Company | |
paid time off, 401(k)
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 United States, Virginia, Stuarts Draft | |
| 120 Harold Cook Dr (Show on map) | |
 Nov 02, 2026 | |
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Note: If you apply for a role at Hershey through our career's website, we may use technologies that use automation to filter your candidacy based on objective criteria. We also use AI-enabled tools that help us facilitate the selection of our future Hershey talent. These tools may help with activities such as matching and scoring candidates to roles based on requirements and scheduling interviews. These systems process only the information you provide in your application, including your resume, work history, education, and responses to screening questions. While these technologies assist with certain steps in our recruitment process and may provide recommendations, all final decisions, including those affecting whether candidates advance to subsequent stages in the applicant process, are made by our talent acquisition teams with meaningful human review and independent judgment. Depending on your location and the specific role you apply for, additional disclosures about our use of AI in recruitment may be provided to you separately. Sr Engineer Mechanical Posted Date: Nov 2, 2026 Requisition Number: 130827 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. How will you fit in the big picture? The Sr Packaging Engineer is a key member of the Stuarts Draft Engineering team, providing primary packaging engineering support for the site. Working independently, this role designs, develops, and optimizes packaging solutions and equipment to protect product quality, improve performance, and support sustainability. You will partner across Operations, Quality, R&D, Procurement, and external suppliers to introduce new products and packaging, strengthen equipment reliability, and deliver capital projects in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. What will you do?
Minimum Requirements Education: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Packaging, Engineering Technology, or a related engineering discipline. Experience: 3+ years of relevant packaging, process, facilities/utilities, or manufacturing engineering experience. Preferred Qualifications:
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.
Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility. #LI-CE1 Job Overview
Working independently this role focuses on the design, development, and optimization of packaging solutions that ensure product protection, functionality, and sustainability. The position involves managing tactical plans aligned with short-term business objectives and addressing moderate to complex challenges that impact multiple teams within the division. The role requires advanced expertise in executing processes and projects related to packaging, including material selection, structural design, and compliance with industry standards and within strategic guidelines. This role requires significant cross-functional collaboration, and has increased ownership and scope acting as primary packaging support for single plant, brand or category. This role collaborates with peers to improve ways of working and share bdp's. Accountabilities
1. Design Packaging Solutions The role designs, develops, and optimizes packaging solutions ensuring product protection, performance, and sustainability. It applies engineering knowledge to meet requirements. This delivers quality packaging. Minimum Education & Requirements
3+ years The anticipated base salary range for this role is $92,160 to $115,200 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of jobrelated 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 performancebased incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial wellbeing (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey's benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees' physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing by visiting the Hershey Digital Employee Experience at www.askHRbenefits.hersheys.com 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.
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