Aerospace and Defense Engineering Associate Intern

About Celestica

Celestica is a global electronics manufacturing services company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with over 28,000 employees across 40 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. Working with the world’s leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica delivers a full suite of services – from design and engineering, to manufacturing and supply chain management – to help its customers develop and manufacture products that are transforming the global economy. These products span key areas such as data centre technology, green energy, healthtech, and autonomous vehicles.

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. You will work under close supervision and receive detailed instructions on all work assignments. You may work autonomously once proficiency in the tasks is achieved. You 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).

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.

Salary

The hourly wage is determined by the years of study completed and is non-negotiable as per company policy. Hourly Wage: $22.50-25.50 CAD/hr

Additional Details

• Area: Engineering
• Start Date: May 2026
• Location: Remote, Canada (may require occasional travel to 5140 Yonge St.)
• Vacancies: 2 positions
• Experience: No formal experience required
• Education: Currently enrolled in University/College internship program, completing 3rd year in a 4-year program of an Electrical, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering.
• As this position involves work that is subject to the Canadian Government's Controlled Goods Program (CGP), your employment offer is conditional upon the successful completion of a security assessment by Celestica and/or its authorized agents, per the Controlled Goods Regulations.

Company Overview

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Key skills/competency

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Data Analysis
• Communication Skills
• Time Management
• Detail Orientation
• Self-Starter
• Learning Agility
• Supply Chain Management
• Value Engineering
• Product Testing Support