Staff Engineer, Electrical Design

Req ID: 119455 
Remote Position: Yes 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 

About Celestica

At Celestica, our people make the difference and fostering an environment that enables our employees to thrive and succeed continues to be one of our strategic priorities.

 

Celestica is dedicated to delivering end-to-end product lifecycle solutions to drive our customers’ success. Our growing Diversified Markets organization focuses on applying Celestica's advanced capabilities, knowledgeable people and innovative tools to enable companies in the industrial, retail, aerospace, defense, healthcare and smart energy markets with highly complex, mission critical applications to improve their competitive advantage.

About this Opportunity

Celestica has an established A&D presence and we are looking to grow our services offering in the design services space. We are currently engaged with several top OEM’s in aerospace with the largest aerospace manufacturing portfolio in our industry. We are committed to providing first in class engineering support customers through a significant initiative in service level expansion.

 

We are looking for leaders who are passionate and results-oriented to be part of our global Diversified Markets organization. If you are a highly motivated individual who likes being at the forefront of product launches and can translate customer challenges into real solutions, this is the opportunity for you.

There are many benefits to joining our team, including

• Market-competitive total rewards
• The opportunity to innovate, learn, mentor others and work toward your own vision of career success
• We are a global leader in the electronics industry; a point of pride with Celestica employees
• Celestica offers a global, collaborative culture
• We are focused on sustainability and provide opportunities for employees to give back to the community

Job Overview

As a senior electrical systems and applications engineer for our A&D team, you will be one of the primary technical interfaces with our customers and suppliers and will oversee the cost takeout and value engineering activities for aerospace and defense products.  You will need to understand the design and qualification aspects of these products and apply this knowledge to show the impacts of component changes to cost reduction.

Responsibilities

• Technical lead between customer engineering team and key engineering suppliers, driving cost takeout and value engineering for aerospace and defense products.
• Leading a multi-disciplined team and coordinating efforts to efficiently resolve roadblocks during cost take out exercises.
• Create proposals and evaluate cost impact of implementing changes to components. Keeping in mind how they affect product level and system level design/redesign for function, cost and reliability.
• Manage product/component level implementation of cost takeout/value engineering initiatives by overseeing project execution by Celestica product design partners.
• Understanding requirements for Aerospace qualification based on Class 1 and Class 2 changes.
• In-Depth understanding of low, moderate and high power component technologies, both passive and active, and key characteristics that drive cost.
• Understanding component supersession including components under QPL, NSR and other military numbering systems.
• Initiate cost effective design changes without affecting operation or reliability of the product
• Active participation in industry conferences and standardization bodies to influence and facilitate development of Celestica’s innovative, market leading product development services.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• An “out of the box” thinker with a  strong desire to do things differently, challenge the status quo and find creative profitable solutions
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent interpersonal skills - communication, negotiation and problem resolution
• Excellent project management, presentation, database management and computer skills
• Strategic mindset with practical orientation
• Ability to simultaneously manage several projects and coordinate multiple deadlines, with prioritization.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a virtual environment.
• A recognized leader with the ability to effectively organize cross-functional teams and manage and motivate others
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships quickly and effectively with counterparts, leaders, key stakeholders and customers globally.
• Proficient in MS office skills, (Work, Excel, Power Point)
• Moderate travel (up to 10%)

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a related electrical field, or