Engineer Packaging

Hershey Company; Hershey (PA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 115,000; Full time

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Health & Wellbeing

Financial Security

Time Off & Flexibility

Growth & Development

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking an experienced Packaging Engineer to design, develop, and optimize packaging solutions that protect products and enhance sustainability. You will lead material selections, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure designs are manufacturable at scale.

This role requires 3+ years of packaging engineering experience, a strong understanding of material selection, and the ability to manage projects from concept through production.

Qualifications

• 3+ years packaging engineering experience.
• Experience with material selection, structural design, and compliance with industry standards.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and manage packaging projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize packaging solutions for product protection, performance, and sustainability.
• Select and qualify packaging materials and components based on requirements and cost.
• Apply manufacturing knowledge to ensure packaging meets production needs and is manufacturable.
• Support product development through packaging engineering input, specifications, and testing.
• Document packaging specifications and ensure records are accurate and accessible.

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Location: Hershey, PA
Travel: 10-20%
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?

Working independently this role focusesonthedesign,development,andoptimizationofpackagingsolutionsthatensure product protection, functionality, and sustainability. The positioninvolves managing tactical plans alignedwith short-term business objectives and addressingmoderate to complex challenges that impact multiple teams within the division. The rolerequiresadvanced expertise in executing processes and projects related to packaging, including materialselection, structural design, and compliance with industry standards and within strategicguidelines. This rolerequires significant cross-functional collaboration, and has increasedownership and scope acting as primarypackaging support for single plant, brand or category. Thisrole collaborates with peers to improve ways of working and share BDP's.

What will you do?

• 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.
• Select and Qualify Materials -The role selects and qualifies packaging materials and components
  based on product requirements and cost. It evaluates environmental impact and manufacturing
  capabilities. This ensures optimal selections.
• Apply Manufacturing Knowledge -The role applies strong manufacturing and equipment
  knowledge to ensure packaging meets production requirements. It validates designs for
  manufacturability. This enables efficient production.
• Support Product Development -The role supports product development through packaging
  engineering expertise. It contributes to specifications and testing. This advances development
  progress.
• Document Technical Work - The role documents technical work and maintains packaging specifications. It ensures records are accurate and accessible. This supports knowledgemanagement.
• 3+ Years of Packaging Engineering experience
• Product Packaging - The technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages.
• Problem Solving - Problem Solving is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information,and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking,analysis and persistence.
• Data Integrity - Data Integrity refers to maintaining and assuring the accuracy and consistency of data overits entire life-cycle, and is a critical aspect to the design, implementation and usage of any system which stores,processes, or retrieves data.
• Collaboration - Collaboration is working together in a cooperative effort to achieve a common goal. It is thepromotion of teamwork and the linkage of intra and interdepartmental cooperation.
• Planning - Ability to anticipate resource needs and then arrange, prioritize and shape activities to meet
  objectives.

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 $92,160to $115,200per 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 (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey’s benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well‑being 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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