Planner Jobs in Pennsylvania
Planner jobs in Pennsylvania are concentrated in urban planning, transportation, environmental planning, and land use across a state that balances dense mid-Atlantic metros with growing suburban corridors. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg drive the largest share of openings, with established employers like AECOM, WSP, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation consistently hiring across experience levels from entry-level associate to senior principal. The most in-demand specialties are transportation planning, comprehensive planning, and environmental site planning. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Job Location: Hershey, PA
Why Hershey
At The Hershey Company, we make more moments of goodness through some of the world's most iconic brands, including Hershey's, Reese's, Kit Kat®, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Dot's Pretzels, Lesser Evil and more. Our team supports a global portfolio of over 90 brands, creating opportunities to shape strategies and drive impact across a breadth of businesses that few companies can offer. While many organizations focus on a handful of brands, Hershey provides exposure to a diverse portfolio of category-leading brands enjoyed by consumers around the world. What truly sets us apart is our legacy. Inspired by Milton Hershey's belief that business should create opportunity for others, we have been making a positive impact for more than a century through our commitment to communities, philanthropy, and our longstanding partnership with Milton Hershey School. When you join Hershey, you become part of a company where purpose, growth, and making a difference are woven into how we do business every day.
How will you fit in the big picture?
The Analyst Maintenance Planner helps the Reese plant execute maintenance work safely and efficiently by building job-ready work plans, coordinating labor and materials, and aligning maintenance schedules with production needs. Working closely with the Reliability Lead and Business Unit partners, this role strengthens preventive and predictive maintenance, supports accurate asset and spare-parts information in SAP, and uses reliability data to improve equipment performance and production effectiveness.
What will you do?
Plan and schedule maintenance work by initiating, reviewing, and managing SAP work orders; define scope, labor, parts, equipment, specialty tools, and job steps so work can be executed without avoidable delays.
Partner with Business Unit teams in daily and weekly planning reviews to coordinate equipment availability, prioritize work, support labor requests, and prepare weekday and weekend maintenance plans.
Collaborate with the Reliability Lead to prioritize the work-order backlog, assign available resources, maintain posted schedules, and improve planning and scheduling routines.
Maintain accurate preventive and predictive maintenance activities, frequencies, documentation, and material requirements for plant assets; review predictive data and create follow-up work requests when action is needed.
Maintain asset and spare-parts information in SAP, support appropriate inventory levels, and establish recurring maintenance requirements for new and existing equipment.
Review equipment performance metrics, failure information, and maintenance process data to identify improvements to maintenance systems, reliability, cost, and uptime.
Communicate technical findings to operators, technicians, peers, and leaders; support small improvement efforts and escalate issues that exceed established authority.
Periodically provide day-to-day coordination or supervisory coverage as business needs require.
Minimum Requirements
- Education: Associate degree in a technical discipline preferred, or equivalent technical training and relevant experience in troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of electrical, mechanical, or facilities systems and equipment.
- Experience: 1+ years of relevant maintenance experience required; 3+ years in manufacturing maintenance with mechanical and electrical planning experience preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling principles; experience with SAP or another computerized maintenance management system is preferred.
Ability to read schematics, drawings, and technical manuals and apply structured troubleshooting methods to moderately complex equipment issues.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and the ability to learn Hershey processes, workflows, and procedures quickly.
Experience with failure analysis, reliability methods, preventive maintenance, or predictive maintenance tools.
Strong organization, attention to detail, communication, and follow-through, with the ability to prioritize changing work and achieve results through collaboration.
Commitment to safe work practices, quality execution, continuous improvement, and ongoing professional growth.
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 begin on Day 1.
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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The anticipated base salary range for this role is $66,800 to $83,500 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of job‑related factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skill set, education, and training. In addition to a market-competitive base salary, our Total Rewards package includes performance‑based incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial well‑being (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey’s benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well‑being by visiting the Hershey Digital Employee Experience at www.askHRbenefits.hersheys.com
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans. You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability.
You can request an accommodation via phone or email.To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.
Job Location: Hershey, PA
Why Hershey
At The Hershey Company, we make more moments of goodness through some of the world's most iconic brands, including Hershey's, Reese's, Kit Kat®, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Dot's Pretzels, Lesser Evil and more. Our team supports a global portfolio of over 90 brands, creating opportunities to shape strategies and drive impact across a breadth of businesses that few companies can offer. While many organizations focus on a handful of brands, Hershey provides exposure to a diverse portfolio of category-leading brands enjoyed by consumers around the world. What truly sets us apart is our legacy. Inspired by Milton Hershey's belief that business should create opportunity for others, we have been making a positive impact for more than a century through our commitment to communities, philanthropy, and our longstanding partnership with Milton Hershey School. When you join Hershey, you become part of a company where purpose, growth, and making a difference are woven into how we do business every day.
How will you fit in the big picture?
The Analyst Maintenance Planner helps the Reese plant execute maintenance work safely and efficiently by building job-ready work plans, coordinating labor and materials, and aligning maintenance schedules with production needs. Working closely with the Reliability Lead and Business Unit partners, this role strengthens preventive and predictive maintenance, supports accurate asset and spare-parts information in SAP, and uses reliability data to improve equipment performance and production effectiveness.
What will you do?
Plan and schedule maintenance work by initiating, reviewing, and managing SAP work orders; define scope, labor, parts, equipment, specialty tools, and job steps so work can be executed without avoidable delays.
Partner with Business Unit teams in daily and weekly planning reviews to coordinate equipment availability, prioritize work, support labor requests, and prepare weekday and weekend maintenance plans.
Collaborate with the Reliability Lead to prioritize the work-order backlog, assign available resources, maintain posted schedules, and improve planning and scheduling routines.
Maintain accurate preventive and predictive maintenance activities, frequencies, documentation, and material requirements for plant assets; review predictive data and create follow-up work requests when action is needed.
Maintain asset and spare-parts information in SAP, support appropriate inventory levels, and establish recurring maintenance requirements for new and existing equipment.
Review equipment performance metrics, failure information, and maintenance process data to identify improvements to maintenance systems, reliability, cost, and uptime.
Communicate technical findings to operators, technicians, peers, and leaders; support small improvement efforts and escalate issues that exceed established authority.
Periodically provide day-to-day coordination or supervisory coverage as business needs require.
Minimum Requirements
- Education: Associate degree in a technical discipline preferred, or equivalent technical training and relevant experience in troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of electrical, mechanical, or facilities systems and equipment.
- Experience: 1+ years of relevant maintenance experience required; 3+ years in manufacturing maintenance with mechanical and electrical planning experience preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling principles; experience with SAP or another computerized maintenance management system is preferred.
Ability to read schematics, drawings, and technical manuals and apply structured troubleshooting methods to moderately complex equipment issues.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and the ability to learn Hershey processes, workflows, and procedures quickly.
Experience with failure analysis, reliability methods, preventive maintenance, or predictive maintenance tools.
Strong organization, attention to detail, communication, and follow-through, with the ability to prioritize changing work and achieve results through collaboration.
Commitment to safe work practices, quality execution, continuous improvement, and ongoing professional growth.
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 begin on Day 1.
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.
#LI-CE1
#Onsite
The anticipated base salary range for this role is $66,800 to $83,500 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of job‑related factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skill set, education, and training. In addition to a market-competitive base salary, our Total Rewards package includes performance‑based incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial well‑being (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey’s benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well‑being by visiting the Hershey Digital Employee Experience at www.askHRbenefits.hersheys.com
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans. You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability.
You can request an accommodation via phone or email.To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.
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Planner Job Market in Pennsylvania
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Science & Research
- Construction & Real Estate
- Retail
- Food & Beverage
- Government & Public Sector
What Pennsylvania Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in planner jobs across Pennsylvania.
- Bachelor's degree in urban planning, geography, or a closely related field required
- AICP certification preferred or active pursuit expected for mid-level roles
- Experience with GIS software such as ArcGIS for spatial analysis and mapping
- Knowledge of Pennsylvania zoning codes, land development ordinances, and municipal law
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for public meetings and agency reports
- Familiarity with NEPA environmental review processes for transportation or infrastructure projects
Planner Jobs in Pennsylvania: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a planner in Pennsylvania?
A bachelor's degree in urban planning, public policy, or a related field is the standard entry point for planner roles in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania does not issue a state license for planners, but the American Institute of Certified Planners credential is widely recognized and often required at the senior level. Candidates typically build qualifying experience under a certified planner before sitting for the AICP exam through the American Planning Association.
Which companies hire planners in Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania planner roles are posted by Lockheed Martin, Nuuly, and Ballinger and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Municipal governments, regional planning commissions, and large engineering consultancies with Pennsylvania offices are among the most consistent sources of planner openings across the state.
Which Pennsylvania cities have the most planner jobs?
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and York post the most planner openings in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia anchors demand through its large municipal planning commission, regional transit agencies, and the concentration of engineering and consulting firms headquartered in the metro, while Pittsburgh's infrastructure redevelopment activity and Harrisburg's role as the state capital generate consistent openings at both the government and private consulting level.
Are there remote planner jobs in Pennsylvania?
Yes, though they make up a smaller share than in purely desk-based fields, since many planner roles require site visits, public meetings, and in-person coordination with municipal clients. About 59% of planner openings tied to Pennsylvania are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting growing flexibility for research, GIS analysis, and report-writing tasks that can be done off-site.
How can I get hired as a planner in Pennsylvania with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is applying directly to Pennsylvania municipal planning departments and county planning commissions, which regularly hire planning technicians or planning assistants for candidates without professional experience. Large consultancies like AECOM and WSP run associate planner programs for recent graduates in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh offices. A GIS certificate and a portfolio of coursework projects strengthen applications, and lateral experience in zoning administration, permitting, or landscape architecture is recognized as directly transferable.
Where can I find and apply to planner jobs in Pennsylvania?
You can find and apply to planner jobs in Pennsylvania on Migrate Mate, which lists current Pennsylvania openings updated regularly. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and location, and apply directly through the listing.
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