At a glance

Pay: CAD24-CAD30/hr
Location: Newmarket
Work type: Hybrid

What they are looking for

Google sheetsMicrosoft excelPower biPurchase ordersRfqs

Location: Newmarket, ON, CA

Req ID: 141396 Remote Position: Hybrid 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 Student Intern, Buyer (Buying Associate) is a 16-month internship role within Celestica's Global Business Services (GBS) Supply Chain Management team. The intern acts as a key operational team member supporting Buying, Planning, Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE), and Procurement Operations. The role focuses on executing day-to-day purchasing activities, resolving supplier and logistics bottlenecks, maintaining accurate supply chain data, and tracking quality metrics to support ongoing production and New Product Introduction (NPI) projects.

Preferred Skills

Supply Chain & Purchasing Fundamentals: Basic understanding of purchasing practices, procurement procedures, and supply chain management.

Data Management & Analytics: Strong proficiency in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, along with knowledge of Power BI.

Multitasking & Detail Orientation: Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and manage multiple complex tasks under tight deadlines while maintaining high accuracy.

Cross-Functional Communication: Effective written and verbal communication skills to coordinate between internal departments (Quality, Logistics, Master Data Management, Planning) and external vendors.

Operational Problem-Solving: Capability to troubleshoot and resolve shipment holds, missing documentation, and invoice/po discrepancies.

Activities

Converting approved requisitions to purchase orders and working with suppliers to obtain delivery confirmations.

Working with suppliers to adjust confirmations as business needs dictate.

Taking appropriate escalation actions when delivery dates and business needs do not align.

Issuing Requests for Quotes (RFQs) to vendors for component services (e.g., Tape & Reel packaging), confirming Minimum Order Quantities (MOQ), pricing, and lead times.

Tracking and publishing various metrics, and following up as needed.

Working with our internal logistics team and external customs brokers (e.g., Deringer, UPS) and suppliers to clear held shipments, verify Country of Origin (COO), and resolve Date Code (DC) discrepancies on purchase orders.

Investigating open receiving referrals, tracking project deliverables on shared trackers, and assisting with NPI quote files.

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: $24-30 CAD/hr