Student Intern, Planning Associate

Req ID: 141102

Remote Position: No

Region: Americas

Country: Canada

State/Province: Ontario

City: Newmarket

16 Month Internship

As a global technology leader, Celestica designs, engineers, and manufactures industry-leading products and services that drive customer success and market advancement. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, we bring together over 33,000 employees across more than 45 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. Working with the world’s leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica helps its customers achieve a competitive advantage. These products span key areas such as data centre technology, aerospace and defense, healthtech, and capital equipment.

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 Planning Intern will act as a crucial member of our supply chain team. This position is an excellent and challenging position for students who are interested in gaining planning, procurement, business and manufacturing knowledge. Guidance and mentorship will be provided to individuals in this position.

Preferred Skills:

• Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques and manufacturing control systems

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially with Excel

• Knowledge of basic computer applications and the ability to learn and use multiple applications specific to this department including the ERP and office systems

• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers

• Demonstrates accountability in role by prioritizing tasks and problem solving independently to ensure timely and accurate completion of responsibilities

Activities:

• Matches material requirements and inventory turnover so as not to hold too high of a percentage of inventory

• Manages surplus, excess and obsolete inventory and prepare inventory reports

• Assists in the resolution of receipt and supplier invoice discrepancies

• Reviews manufacturing production goals and plans accordingly

• Analyzes inputs including capacity, cycle times, urgency of request, and material availability to help determine schedule

• Acts as customer liaison with new product introduction

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

• 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: $23-30 CAD/hr

Additional Details:

Area: Supply Chain

Start Date: May 2027

Location: 213 Harry Walker Pkwy South, Newmarket, Ontario

Vacancies: 9 positions

Experience: No Formal Experience Required.

Education: Currently enrolled in an Internship program completing 3rd year of a 4-year University program or 2nd year of 3-year Diploma program specializing in Supply Chain, Operations, Business or 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.

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 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. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates throughout the hiring process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

This position involves technologies regulated by the Canadian government's Controlled Goods Program (CGP). Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada and meet all other requirements under CGP. Job offers will be conditional upon candidates undergoing a successful security screening per the Controlled Goods Regulations.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner 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, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

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.