Aerospace and Defense Engineering Associate Intern

Job Description

Aerospace and Defense Engineering Associate Intern – 16 Month Internship

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Job Details

• Req ID: 131632
• Remote Position: Yes
• Region: Americas
• Country: Canada
• State/Province: Ontario
• City: Remote Employee Canada
• Internship Duration: 16 Months
• 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

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

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. Celestica is 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: Employees are encouraged to implement new ideas and improve processes.
• Collaboration: Students work as part of global teams, enabled by collaborative technology.
• Sustainability: Strong ethics, reduced environmental impact, and two paid days off per year to volunteer.
• Development opportunities: Including soft skills courses, innovation projects, and mentorship.
• Networking: Strategically build your professional network and deepen relationships with peers and colleagues.
• Fun: Interns can participate in social events, charitable initiatives, and Spirit Week activities.

About This Opportunity

The Aerospace and Defense Engineering Associate Intern will support the Value Engineering team by collecting information, reviewing component parameters, supporting product testing for verification, gathering supply chain data (cost, price, demand, inventory, etc.), and creating documentation to substantiate new component choices. The intern will work under close supervision, receiving detailed instructions, but may achieve autonomy and take on more complex duties with proficiency. This position offers exposure to customer product design, providing valuable knowledge of product build and performance within Celestica’s Aerospace and Defense division, including interaction with partner and customer aerospace companies.

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 the supply chain to determine the priority of components to investigate.
• Reviewing design documentation to understand design intent.
• Supporting testing of components and/or end units (documentation only) for verification purposes.
• Creating tables and documents that justify the new selected components.
• Generating 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.

Salary

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company and may change based on several factors, including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate. 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

Education & Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a University/College internship program.
• Completing 3rd year in a 4-year program of an Electrical, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering discipline.
• 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 to apply. Please provide a copy of your transcript with your application and include your student email address.

Company Overview

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through its recognized customer-centric approach, Celestica partners 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, Celestica imagines, develops and delivers a better future with its customers.

Equal Opportunity Employer & Accessibility

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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.

Hiring Process Information

We use artificial intelligence tools to assist in screening and assessing applications for this role. All hiring decisions involve human review.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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.

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