Dock Coordinator

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Note:

If you apply for a role at Hershey through our career’s website, we may use technologies that use automation to filter your candidacy based on objective criteria. We also use AI-enabled tools that help us facilitate the selection of our future Hershey talent. These tools may help with activities such as matching and scoring candidates to roles based on requirements and scheduling interviews.

These systems process only the information you provide in your application, including your resume, work history, education, and responses to screening questions. While these technologies assist with certain steps in our recruitment process and may provide recommendations, all final decisions, including those affecting whether candidates advance to subsequent stages in the applicant process, are made by our talent acquisition teams with meaningful human review and independent judgment.

Depending on your location and the specific role you apply for, additional disclosures about our use of AI in recruitment may be provided to you separately.

Posted Date:
Aug 11, 2026

Requisition Number: 129041

Job Location:

Hershey, PA

Reporting to the Dock & Warehouse Lead and working at the Technical Center. This position will be part of a Team that will support all Pilot Plant projects helping Project Leaders with ingredients, drum dumping and retrieving all assets needed for the Projects. Responsible for scheduling pickups and deliveries with building residents at various company and non-company facilities. Ensures safe and efficient transportation of palletized products, freestanding machinery, and other miscellaneous items.

Responsible for asset management of equipment stored at an offsite warehouse. Maintains accurate and detailed information on equipment and items stored at the offsite warehouse: updates and tracks equipment and equipment requests through the Lot Tracking databases. Assists in setting up production equipment in the Pilot Plant per our GMP and QA policies. Serves in a backup to the Dock and Warehouse Coordinators.

Global R&D, Tech Center Operations, Engineering, QRC & CI

Transportation Support:
Schedules and coordinates pick-up and deliveries of various palletized products and equipment with building residents. Ensures safe, and prompt transportation to various company and non-company facilities. Facilitates equipment transfers between our offsite warehouse and the Tech Center. Effectie time management of coordinating pickups, deliveries and providing Pilot Plant support to meet rapidly changing needs.

Equipment Support: Moves large and heavy pieces of palletized and free standing equipment by hand and with electrically powered lift trucks throughout the facility in a safe manner to avoid injuring personnel and damaging equipment. Sets up and dissembles Pilot Plant equipment after product and process runs have been completed. Maintains updated records of equipment locations as well as equipment requests through various asset databases.

Inspects and conducts routine and light maintenance on electrically powered lift trucks, aerial platforms and pallet jacks.

Dock Support: Assist in receiving small packages and palletized freight by offloading delivery vehicles, ensuring that all items are accounted for and in proper disposition. Assist with preparing all outbound shipments by appropriately packing items with safety and protection of the items. Help prepare appropriate paperwork to facilitate the accurate and timely arrival of shipments.

Warehouse Support: While using a high reach forklift; received goods, move materials, update locations, and ingredients for proper storage in a conditioned warehouse. Maintains accurate and detailed locations of pallets placed in the warehouse. Other duties as assigned by management.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilitites required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:

• Ability to carry out assigned tasks in a timely manner with less than normal supervision.
• Ability to lift up to 50 and 100 lbs. with help, bend, stoop, and kneel in…