Packaging Equipment Specialist

Hershey Company; Bluffton (IN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Financial Security

Time Off & Flexibility

Growth & Development

Job summary

The Hershey Company’s Bluffton, IN facility seeks a Packaging Specialist to support safe, reliable, and efficient packaging operations. You will coordinate packaging equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, process improvements, SQF compliance, operator capability, and product qualification activities.

Collaborate with Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Training, R&D, and external resources to improve equipment performance, reduce waste, and strengthen operator effectiveness.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 1+ years of experience in manufacturing equipment, packaging operations, maintenance, technical support, or related environment.
• Technical capability to maintain, troubleshoot, calibrate, or repair manufacturing or utility systems using established procedures.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to adapt technical information for different audiences.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and support repair of packaging equipment, including conveyors, scales, packaging machines, metal detectors, formers, and related ancillary equipment.
• Own recurring preventive maintenance and inspection processes, including PMO routes, completion tracking, documentation, and SQF compliance.
• Use structured troubleshooting and root cause analysis to resolve moderately complex equipment and process issues, escalating matters outside established authority.
• Track and improve equipment reliability and performance measures, including mean time to failure, mean time between failures, machine rates, waste, and operator compliance.
• Maintain the PMO Tier Progression program by assessing skills, identifying training needs, supporting bid recommendations, and updating training materials and troubleshooting guides.
• Coordinate parts inventory and maintenance planning with the ATS Site Manager, Planner/Scheduler, Engineering, Maintenance, and Parts Specialist.
• Support small technical and continuous improvement initiatives, including equipment changes, CapEx implementation, R&D trials, sample requests, and validation of results.
• Communicate technical findings, trends, and recommendations to plant leaders and cross-functional partners to support corrective actions and production effectiveness.
• Support plant SQF and KPI goals, including foreign material investigations, metal detector deviations, customer complaint investigations, and continuous improvement activities.

Skills

Packaging equipment

Preventive maintenance

SQF compliance

Root cause analysis

PMO

Training coordination

Education

High school diploma

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Hershey Company’s Bluffton, IN facility seeks a Packaging Specialist to support safe, reliable, and efficient packaging operations. You will coordinate packaging equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, process improvements, SQF compliance, operator capability, and product qualification activities.

Collaborate with Production, Maintenance, Engineering, Training, R&D, and external resources to improve equipment performance, reduce waste, and strengthen operator effectiveness.