Aerospace and Defense Engineering 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. We are 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 Aerospace and Defense Engineering Intern Opportunity

The Aerospace and Defense Engineering 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 new components. You will work under close supervision and receive detailed instructions on all work assignments, potentially working autonomously once proficiency is achieved. More complex duties may be assigned as proficiency grows. This position provides exposure to the design of customer products, offering valuable knowledge of how products are built and perform within the Aerospace and Defense division of Celestica, working with other aerospace partners and customers.

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 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.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Value Engineering
• Component Parameters
• Product Verification Testing
• Supply Chain Data Analysis
• Technical Documentation
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong Communication Skills
• Time Management
• Self-Starter Mentality
• Adaptability & Continuous Learning