Student Intern, Engineering Project Management (Technology Accelerators)

16 Month Internship

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 Engineering Project Management (Technology Accelerators) intern will be responsible for performing, maintaining and continuous improvement for the Technology Accelerators program. As a supporter of this program, the role will be involved in the research, evaluation, vetting, and onboarding of various technologies to our IP portfolio. The role will consist of various tasks related to project management, customer and external provider interaction, reporting and metric evaluation, generation of both internal and external training collateral, and broad exposure and evaluation of technologies associated with all of our business segments (Aerospace & Defense, Health Tech, Smart Energy, Industrial, Data Center Infrastructure, Capital Equipment.)

 Preferred Skills:

• Ability to manage time, be organized, and work with minimal supervision

• Strong customer focused orientation

• Detail oriented and striving for perfection; quality mindset

• Ability to manage multiple, complex priorities within demanding time frames with attention to detail

• Able to work cross-functionally with diverse teams on various topics

• Knowledge of and ability to work within a global corporate environment is required. Highly collaborative

• Excellent documentation skills including proofreading to ensure accuracy of content

• Strong communication and presentation skills (listening, written, and verbal)

• Flexibility and agility with different topics particularly with various technologies

• Strong engineering and technical skills coupled with very strong communication skills

Activities:

• Familiarize themselves with all of the existing IP and the Technology Accelerator program including existing tools, resources, objectives and new goals for 2026.

• Familiarize themselves with the contractual and process elements related to both technology and product licensing. 

• Work with the Technology Accelerator leader in close alignment to maintain strategy and daily, weekly, monthly priorities.

• Provide in depth research on specific technologies and potential technology partners, including their specific offering and value props as aligned with different Celestica business segments.

• Coordinate meetings and team alignment in order to perform internal reviews with stakeholders and create relationships with potential providers.

• Create relationships with internal technical teams who will support internal development and IP generation.

• Work with Sales teams and tools in order to manage and monitor metrics related to Tech Accelerator financial and booking performance. 

• Present and communicate status to functional management and may have customer/ provider interaction.

• Implement change as directed in the Tech lifecycle process.

• Support the creation of business cases in order to demonstrate value of onboarding licensed technology or the development of organic IP by Celestica.

• Create and maintain Technology Accelerator systems and tools

• Maintain Technology Accelerator processes and templates

• Assist with and monitor project qualification efforts by ensuring completion of business cases, cost-benefit analyses, resource plans and project schedules

• Assist with facilitating stage gate reviews and management process for reviewing/approving project readiness for advancement to next phase

• Support management of project portfolio via internal toolsets and reports and provide metrics, reports and dashboards related to projects and programs

• Collect reporting documentation for regular Tech Accelerator governance meetings

• Assist with assessing general health of programs/projects

• Support Project Managers in collection and reporting of project status/risk

• Manage and document regular project reporting meetings

• Effectively manage segments of a larger project with limited supervision

• Manage all aspects of small projects through the project lifecycle, including project scope, schedule, resources, quality, costs and change

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

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office with exposure to manufacturing environments.
• 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 are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.). 

Additional Details:

Area: Global Engineering & Product Development

Start Date: May 2026

Location: 5140 Yonge St, Toronto, ON

Vacancies: 1 positions

Experience: No formal experience is required

Education: Enrollment in a University Internship/Co-op program, completing 3rd year of an Engineering Program.

***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.

To apply, please visit www.celestica.com. Please provide a copy of your transcript with your application. Please include your student email address in your application.