Engineer Packaging
The Hershey Company · Hershey, PA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $92k–$115k
- Travel
- 20%
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- 14 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at The Hershey Company (food & beverage) in Hershey, PA.
- They ask for
- 3+ years
- Base pay
- $92k–$115k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage · about 20% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Pennsylvania: typical posted base $79k–$120k. This one lists $92k–$115k.
Median of the low and high ends of 24 live postings that list pay, out of 60 manufacturing engineer openings in Pennsylvania, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Pennsylvania plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 59 other live manufacturing postings in Pennsylvania.
- Base pay
- In line with similar roles
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
Typical $79k–$120k, from 23 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 57%
- Tooling 50%
- Root cause 38%
- Six Sigma 32%
- Automation 32%
- New product launch 27%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Manufacturing team at The Hershey Company
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- The posting says about 20% travel. Between which sites?
- 4
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This plant: The Hershey Company in Hershey
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Full description from The Hershey CompanyAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
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 knowledge management.
Requirements
- ✓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 over its 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 the promotion 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.
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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 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.
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