General Overview

Job Title: Senior Manager, Electrical Design Engineering
Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Design Engineering Electrical (DEE)
Role: Manager (SMG)
Job Code: SMG-ENG-DEE
Job Band: 11
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Manager, HW & SW to lead our multi-disciplinary electronic hardware and embedded software engineering organization. In this role, you will champion people leadership by coaching, mentoring, and driving talent development initiatives to build a high-performing culture capable of delivering products that leave a positive global impact.
The Senior Manager, HW & SW will contribute to capability roadmaps, facilitating high-stakes engineering decisions, and foster seamless cross-functional collaboration among internal and external stakeholders, ensuring innovative solutions for HealthTech, Industrial, Power Infrastructure, Aerospace and Capital Equipment.

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Detailed Description

People and Technical Leadership
o Lead a team of embedded hardware and software engineers, providing clear guidance and support to ensure deliverables meet project requirements.
o Champion a culture of high performance through targeted mentoring, drive talent development, and continuous performance evaluations.
o Proficient in product development life cycle processes, enforce product development processes and regulatory compliance.
o Facilitate high-stakes engineering decisions as necessary, supporting teams through design or architecture trade-off analyses with internal or external stakeholders.
o Drive solutions for staffing to support business needs.
Engineering Operation Leadership
o Support technical proposals, planning and cost estimations that will aid in the initial quoting process.
o Recruit and attract talent, enable team growth and capability expansion.
o Develop partnerships with external service providers and technology partners to strengthen the team's capabilities.
o Assume full operational ownership of project scheduling, risk mitigation, human capital allocation, and engineering budgets
o Formulate and execute annual organization OKRs, holding the organization accountable to high performance metrics.
Continuous Learning and Innovation
o Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, regulations and best practices to contribute to the advancement of technology roadmap, design best practices, procedures, quality, efficiency or the acquisitions of new capabilities.
o Passionate about solving complex issues and innovating under tight project requirements.
o Promote and cultivate the culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Enabling Competencies:

Discipline Leaderships
o Demonstrate People & Team Leadership Behaviors as per Celestica Leadership Imperatives.
Commitment to Right-the-First-Time engineering methodologies, underpinned by a Lean and Quality-driven mindset.
The following competencies are fundamental for this role: Coaching/Mentoring Communication/Negotiation/Presentation Creative Problem Solving (8D/Corrective Actions), Customer/Stakeholder Management Quality & Lean
Embedded Design (Electronic/Electrical/Software), System Requirement, System Level Architecture, & Design Verification and Testing, Regulatory Compliance (Bonus).

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline. (Ph.D. with tailored industrial exposure is welcome to apply).
Minimum 10 years of direct engineering experience within multi-disciplinary product development lifecycles, with a significant portion spent in progressive people management roles.
Fluent in both written and spoken English, ability to work in an international team.
Good team work attitude, collaboration and communication skills.
Global business travel may be required.

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.
Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Experience

Minimum 10 years of direct engineering experience within multi-disciplinary product development lifecycles, with a significant portion spent in progressive people management roles.

Typical Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline. (Ph.D. with tailored industrial exposure is welcome to apply).

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica, Inc. (NYSE: CLS TSX: CLS) is a technology leader dedicated to driving customer success and market advancements. With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. With a talented team and a strategic global network, Celestica helps its customers achieve competitive advantages.

Today, Celestica delivers innovative supply chain solutions globally to customers in strategic two operating and reporting segments: Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) and Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CC):

ATS: This segment serves customers in complex, regulated and high-reliability markets such as Industrial & Smart Energy, Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductor Capital Equipment, and HealthTech. It is engineering led, with deep expertise in design, manufacturing and lifecycle solutions.

CCS: This segment focuses on high-performance technology solutions and services for the data center, serving hyperscalers, digital native customers and enterprises. Celestica's Platform Solutions offering provides innovative and customizable computing, storage and networking solutions enabling AI-driven growth.

Built on a legacy of trust and performance, Celestica has earned its reputation by delivering results in complex and fast-changing markets. Celestica exceeds customer expectations by identifying trends and staying ahead of the curve. Backed by comprehensive capabilities and a global network across North America, Europe and Asia, Celestica helps customers gain competitive advantage with the quality, flexibility and resiliency they need to respond quickly to shifts in demand. Guided by a bold vision to accelerate market advancements, Celestica delivers innovative solutions and technologies that turn complexity into opportunity. Anchored in teamwork and commitment, Celestica strives to be the most trusted partner to its customers and colleagues worldwide.

Senior Manager, Hardware and Software