Specialist SQM

Location: Hershey, PA   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.     About The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company 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. How will you fit in the big picture?

The Specialist SQM will support supplier quality and food safety activities for assigned suppliers, products, processes, or project areas. This role helps coordinate recurring QA verifications, testing activities, supplier documentation reviews, food safety monitoring, and product/process verification work to ensure requirements are met and risks are identified and escalated appropriately.  Working under general supervision, this role will organize and prioritize work to meet service, cost, quality, and compliance objectives. The Specialist SQM will communicate findings, identify trends within scope, support defined process adjustments, and help drive consistency and continuous improvement in quality and food safety performance. What will you do?

Coordinate recurring QA checks, testing activities, sampling plans, specification checks, sensory evaluations, and product/process verification activities for assigned products, lines, suppliers, or processes.  Support the Quality Design Process for chocolate paste renovation and Superior Snacking formulation-change projects, including coordination with external chocolate paste suppliers and internal cross-functional partners. Conduct and support supplier quality assessments for ingredient, packaging, and storage sites to help ensure compliance with government regulations, industry standards, and company supplier quality management policies. Review supplier information forms and documentation as part of the ingredient and packaging approval process, ensuring documentation meets company requirements and supporting the overall approval program. Monitor food safety programs within assigned scope, including sanitation verification, hygiene audits, allergen control checks, and environmental monitoring. Use QA, food safety, laboratory, supplier, and verification data to identify patterns, recurring issues, or emerging risks; summarize findings and recommend defined improvements. Support incident investigations by collecting information, analyzing results, reviewing process conditions and trends, and coordinating follow-up checks to confirm corrective actions are effective. Partner with Product