Senior Packaging Engineer — Lead High-Speed Packaging

Hershey Company; Stuarts Draft (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Financial Security

Time Off & Flexibility

Growth & Development

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking a Sr Packaging Engineer for the Stuarts Draft site. You will design, develop, and optimize packaging solutions and equipment to protect product quality, improve performance, and support sustainability.

You will partner with Operations, Quality, R&D, Procurement, and suppliers to introduce new products, strengthen equipment reliability, and deliver capital projects in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• BS in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Packaging or related engineering.
• 3+ years in packaging, process, facilities/utilities, or manufacturing engineering.
• Experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment preferred; food/pharma experience.

Responsibilities

• Design packaging solutions, materials, components, and equipment for protection, manufacturability, performance, cost, and sustainability.
• Lead packaging and processing capital projects from analysis through installation, startup, training, and documentation.
• Verify existing equipment capability for new products; implement changes that reduce waste and changeover time; improve reliability, availability and flexibility.
• Apply knowledge of primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging systems including high-speed flow wrapping, cartoning, vertical form-fill-seal bagging, case packing, and palletizing.
• Develop and maintain packaging specifications, technical records, cost estimates, feasibility assessments, schedules, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with manufacturing partners, OEMs, and vendors to solve moderate-to-complex technical challenges and share best practices across teams.
• Support hygienic design, GMP, safety, quality, and applicable engineering standards throughout project execution.

Skills

Packaging engineering

Project leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel

Education

BS in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Packaging or related engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

SAP

Job description

The Hershey Company is seeking a Sr Packaging Engineer for the Stuarts Draft site. You will design, develop, and optimize packaging solutions and equipment to protect product quality, improve performance, and support sustainability.

You will partner with Operations, Quality, R&D, Procurement, and suppliers to introduce new products, strengthen equipment reliability, and deliver capital projects in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.