Job Description

Location: El Salto, Jal, MX.

About The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.

At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.

Guided by our employee value proposition, Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.

The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.

How will you fit in the big picture?

The Manager, Maintenance leads progressive maintenance, reliability, instrumentation, utilities, spare-parts support, and preventive maintenance planning to improve technical availability and sustain safe, high-quality production. This role owns key maintenance KPIs and OPEX controls, partners with Production, Quality, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, and Safety, and builds team capability while serving internal customers with urgency and integrity.

What will you do?

• Lead the Progressive Maintenance program and preventive/corrective maintenance planning, including equipment hierarchy, BOMs, task lists, frequencies, labor, and work orders in the ERP system.
• Drive equipment and facility reliability by monitoring maintenance KPIs, analyzing recurring failures, leading root-cause problem solving, and coordinating rapid restoration of operations.
• Manage assigned OPEX and vendor spend, support accurate financial close, and balance reliability, service, and cost priorities.
• Oversee instrumentation, electrical maintenance, utilities, and spare-parts processes; ensure materials are available for scheduled and emergency work and inventory levels support the operation.
• Ensure compliance with safety, food safety, quality, calibration, and audit requirements, including SQF, FDA, EHS, LOTO, electrical safety, and applicable technical standards.
• Develop supervisors and technical teams through annual training, clear priorities, performance routines, and collaboration across functions and with contractors.

Minimum Requirements

Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in maintenance planning, industrial machinery, reliability, instrumentation, controls, or related plant technical operations. Demonstrated people leadership at the supervisor level and experience managing contractors, budgets, vendors, and maintenance KPIs. Experience in food or pharmaceutical manufacturing is preferred.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Controls, or a related engineering field.

Technical Qualifications: Strong SAP S/4 or comparable ERP maintenance-module expertise; preventive maintenance planning, work orders, equipment structures, BOMs, and reporting; continuous-improvement and problem-solving tools such as 5S, Ishikawa, root-cause analysis, RCM, and TPM; working knowledge of NFPA, OSHA, electrical safety, LOTO, GMP, calibration, industrial electricity, pneumatics, instrumentation, PLC/HMI, and drives. Advanced English proficiency is required.

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