Student Intern, IT Application Associate

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 IT Application Intern will work on the Corporate IT engineering team in developing and deploying strategic solutions to the entire Operations Network. The Intern will be involved in different projects, initiatives, and assignments that will allow them to further develop their software related skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Some degree of development experience with any of the following would be considered an asset: C# .NET4.0 or higher, C, C++, Azure, .NET Core, MVC Design Pattern, SQL Server, Oracle DB
• Some degree of development experience with any of the following would be considered a bonus: TCL, Python, Mongo DB, NoSQL, Powershell, Network Basics
• Some degree of experience with interfacing software with external (hardware) systems: Other software solutions, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Beaglebone
• Basic knowledge of software development lifecycle concepts
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self- starter with a desire to make a difference
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Able to work with users around the globe and discern their system errors

Activities:

• Involvement in the design/development/support of new and existing applications (both on premise and cloud platforms)
• Assisting in the gathering of requirements for new applications- includes collecting and analyzing existing documentation, reviewing with Subject Matter Experts & writing specification documents
• Perform routine management/support/reporting tasks as they relate to applications (both out of the box and custom development) under our control
• Working with other team(s) in system troubleshooting of the application problems
• Ability to “figure out” and research problems independently, and come up with viable solution(s) that work within our landscape.
• Testing of new releases of the application for production environment.

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: IT Global Digital Factory

Start Date: May 2026

Location: 5140 Yonge Street, Toronto

Experience: No formal experience required.

Education: Currently enrolled in a University Co-op/Internship program completing 3rd year of a 4 year program in an Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science 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.