Theme park, hotel, and sports entertainment operator with 5,000+ employees
Hershey Entertainment & Resorts operates a diversified hospitality portfolio—amusement park, hotels, hockey team, restaurants—across a 5,000+ person workforce split between ~1,750 full-time and 7,000+ seasonal staff. The tech stack is traditional (Excel, SQL Server, Looker for BI) and the hiring profile reflects operational scale: operations dominates open roles, but finance automation, HR policy standardization, and data integrity issues are driving engineering and data hiring despite small team sizes.
Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company owns and operates Hersheypark (amusement park), The Hotel Hershey, Hershey Lodge, the Hershey Bears (American Hockey League team), and associated dining venues in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1927 as a spin-off from Milton S. Hershey's chocolate manufacturing business. Current projects center on operational modernization: finance process automation, HR policy consistency across distributed properties, website and e-commerce platform redesign, and data dashboards. The organization emphasizes service culture and seasonal hiring cycles typical of leisure hospitality.
Core stack: Microsoft Office, Excel, SQL Server, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Java, and Looker for analytics and BI dashboards. Legacy enterprise infrastructure focused on reporting and operations support.
Hershey, Pennsylvania. The company operates multiple properties in the region including the flagship Hersheypark amusement park, two hotel properties, and an AHL sports team.
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