Req ID: 122958
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Americas
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto
16 Month Internship
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) is a US$7.9 billion global leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions. We bring global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. Through our unrivalled customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges.
Celestica is a high-integrity work environment and when you join Celestica you are a part of a leading global company that enables the world’s best brands, and contributes to our innovative and collaborative solutions that help our customers unlock the potential of the future.
Our global network spans 15 countries with 26,000 employees across the Americas, Europe and Asia. At our Toronto headquarters, we are focused on attracting top talent into our organization, including interns from universities and colleges.
Celestica's internship program provides students with valuable development through real-life work experience, exciting projects and networking with industry professionals.
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
Students who excel in this position enjoy problem solving and helping others to succeed. Communication and recognition of Continuous Improvement (CI) successes is central to the position.
This role supports our ATS sites and their Continuous Improvement teams and is responsible for developing and sustaining CI standards across the segment, primarily focused in Europe and North America. The Intern will be exposed to Continuous Improvement principles, systems and tools, and will have the opportunity to learn from experienced team members as well as through direct participation in CI activity. The candidate will also support and lead regional CI programs and will have the opportunity to learn about and engage with a variety of sites, customers, and businesses. The Intern in this role will enjoy a varied, stimulating and challenging work environment in a highly motivated team. We are looking for a team player who is able to learn quickly, is self-motivated, and has excellent interpersonal communication abilities.
Preferred Skills
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Office/Google
- Strong communication skills, especially written
- Excellent collaboration, problem solving and teamwork skills
- Flexible and self-motivated
- Familiarity with Smartsheet, PowerBI, dashboarding or website design an asset
- Awareness of Continuous Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma is an asset
Activities
- Assist in the governance of the Systematic CI Framework program, including quarterly internal reviews and semi-annual site assessments.
- Manage CI Recognition programs, including coordinating monthly Best of Site, quarterly Best of Region and semi-annual global Best of Best recognition rewards and associated communications.
- Coordinate the publication of the quarterly CI Newsletter, including content generation, recognition summaries and other updates.
- Support appropriate CI reviews, including monthly regional and site meetings.
- Oversee monthly CI metric reporting.
- Assist with maintenance and enhancements of the global CI website.
- Assist with maintenance and enhancements of the Operations Central repository.
- Potential to participate in process improvement based CI workshops or projects.
- Potential to assist in the creation and delivery of training materials.
- This team drives and supports improvement initiatives across the network that may require support and provides opportunities for candidates to take on new responsibilities as determined by business needs and applicant’s capabilities. If applicate, a candidate could take on a greater role in a site improvement initiative or lead/support a broader initiative.
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: ATS Continuous Improvement
Start Date: May 2025
Location: 5140 Yonge St, Toronto, ON
Vacancies: 1
Experience: No formal experience is required
Education: Enrollment in a University or College Internship/Co-op program, completing 3rd year of an Engineering, Commerce, Arts & Science or similar program
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.
Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.
Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.
