Engineer, Program/Project Mgmt

About the Role

The Engineer, Program/Project Management - Graduate Development Program (EGDP) at Celestica is designed for individuals looking to build a career and grow as leaders. This program offers exposure to senior leaders, valuable business experience, organizational breadth, and strengthens leadership capabilities through unique, challenging, and evolving roles critical to the global business. Participants will engage in professional development programs, networking events, and receive support from a dedicated program manager, peer partner, and executive mentor.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership of commercial deployments of product solutions for networking, storage, and server products.
• Stay updated on new technologies, market trends, and customer requirements for networking, storage, and server products.
• Engage and influence customers.
• Collaborate with key organizations within Celestica to drive new product solutions based on customer feedback, supplier technologies, and market data.
• Create and drive approval for business cases for products going to market, including product pricing.
• Track actual performance against business case plans.
• Responsible for program execution to schedule and budget for the full product lifecycle.
• Oversee program execution from key organizations including Marketing, Sales, Development, Aftermarket Services, Manufacturing, Quality, Account Management, Pricing/Quoting, and Legal.
• Manage customer sample systems (requirements, management, allocation, recovery).
• Review and approve engineering change requests from development and customers.
• Drive Value Engineering sessions to continuously reduce product costs.
• Participate in all phase gate reviews for products.
• Oversee Product transfers (design and/or manufacturing).

Requirements & Tech Stack

• BS in Engineering or Computer Science with a strong background in business and marketing.
• MBA preferred.
• Entrepreneurship, positive attitude, ability, desire, and willingness to make an impact.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship building, and communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Ability to adjust communication style based on the audience (from detailed to executive summary).
• Strong project management skills and experience, including managing internal and external stakeholders, and multiple launches and projects concurrently.
• Proven success in managing complex and multi-faceted hardware or software product programs with the ability to drive projects through completion.
• Demonstrated ability to problem-solve and ensure deadlines are met and expectations exceeded.
• Understanding of Networking, Storage, Server products and rack-scale solutions targeted for AI infrastructure.
• Understanding of hardware and software product management.
• Understanding of the full product lifecycle (cradle to grave).
• Strong analytical abilities and judgment.

Qualifications

• Graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science in Spring 2027.
• Candidates will work under the mentorship of a senior engineer in Product Line Management Engineering.

Additional Details

• Salary Range: $68,000–$85,000 USD (Base Salary only. Comprehensive benefits package offered in addition).
• Start Date: May 2027
• Location: 2130 Gold Street, Alviso, California 95002
• Vacancies: 1 position
• Application Requirements: Resume, Cover Letter, University Transcript.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.