Student Intern, Aerospace and Defense Engineering Associate

16 Month Internship

As a global technology leader, Celestica designs, engineers, and manufactures industry-leading products and services that drive customer success and market advancement. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, we bring together over 33,000 employees across more than 45 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. Working with the world’s leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica helps its customers achieve a competitive advantage. These products span key areas such as data centre technology, aerospace and defense, healthtech, and capital equipment.

Working at Celestica is more than a job. It’s about being part of something bigger and shaping the future with your work. You’ll take on exciting and challenging projects, get hands-on experience, collaborate with a global team, and learn from some of the greatest minds in the industry. And just as we aspire to imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers, we’re just as committed to delivering the best employee experience.

Benefits for Students Include:

• Experience working for one of the largest Canadian global technology companies
• Possibility of a student casual contract position after completion of internship
• Possibility of a full-time position after completion of degree
• Access to Celestica’s development programs and projects
• Celestica's Time Off to Volunteer program – two paid days off to volunteer per year
• Fun intern activities including celebration events and networking
• Internal recognition programs and rewards for stellar performance

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity: Job experience at a large Canadian-based global company
• Innovation: We look to our employees to implement new ideas and improve the way we do things
• Collaboration: Students work as part of global teams, enabled by collaborative technology
• Sustainability: We uphold strong ethics, reduce our impact on the environment and empower employees to give back to the community with two paid days off per year to volunteer
• Development opportunities: including soft skills courses, innovation projects and mentorship
• Networking: Strategically build your professional network to advance your career and deepen relationships across your peers and colleagues.
• Fun: Our interns have the opportunity to participate in fun activities including intern social events, Celestica’s charitable initiatives and our Spirit Week activities

About this opportunity:

The Aerospace and Defense Engineering Associate Intern will work on collecting information for the Value Engineering team, including review of component parameters, supporting testing of product for verification, gathering supply chain related data (cost, price, demand, inventory, etc), and creating documentation that would substantiate the choice of the new components. Will work under close supervision and receive detailed instructions on all work assignments. May work autonomously once proficiency in the tasks is achieved. May also be given more complex duties as proficiency is gained. This position will also provide exposure to the design of our customer’s products to gain valuable knowledge of how products are built and perform. This work will be done in the Aerospace and Defense division of Celestica, and will include working with other aerospace companies who are either partners or customers of Celestica.

Preferred Skills:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and Adobe Acrobat.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to interface directly with Engineering, Supply Chain, outside Suppliers/Vendors, and Manufacturing teams.
• Well organized, good time-management skills, detailed-oriented and a self-starter.
• Comfortable working autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.
• Highly adaptable with a strong desire to learn.

Activities:

• Providing comparison data from similar components.
• Interfacing with supplier chain to determine priority of components to investigate.
• Review design documentation to understand design intent.
• Support testing of components and/or end units (documentation only) for verification purposes.
• Create tables and documents that justify the new selected components.
• Generate proposals and 4UP charts.
• Responsible for the continuous and timely update of the proposal database (Platypus) for any status/progress updates or to any of the data content (price, yearly demand, project type, etc).
• Lead internal review meetings for the proposals they have generated and lead weekly RAIL meetings with our major customers (Honeywell, Collins, L3, etc)

Physical Demands, duties of this position are varied and will include:

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.