Summary

Celestica is looking for a Hardware Technical Program Manager to lead complex programs at the intersection of engineering, operations, and customer delivery.  You will create the integrated plan, establish the operating rhythm and keep the team foused on the decisions and evidence needed to deliver a high-qulaity hardware solution on time and at the expected cost.

Detailed Description

What you’ll do:

• Own delivery: Plan and drive complex hardware programs from concept through launch, aligning scope, schedule, cost, quality, features, fulfillment, and customer-specific requirements.
• Lead the core team: Bring together engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams; establish operating rhythm, decisions, and clear accountability.
• Build the plan: Create and maintain the integrated program plan, work breakdown structure, milestones, resource needs, dependencies, and readiness criteria.
• Control execution: Track progress against baseline, identify variance early, and drive corrective actions across design, integration, validation, manufacturing readiness, and deployment.
• Manage risk and change: Maintain visible risk, issue, and dependency management; lead trade-off discussions and implement approved changes through the product lifecycle process.
• Translate complexity: Turn technical and operational detail into concise updates on schedule, cost, risk, decisions, and customer impact for business leaders and stakeholders.
• Strengthen the system: Improve program-management practices, templates, governance, and cross-functional ways of working while sharing knowledge with other program leaders.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

What you bring

• Program leadership: Proven success leading complex, cross-functional hardware or systems programs with multiple workstreams and interdependencies.
• Technical fluency: Working knowledge of server, accelerated-compute, AI, or other technically complex products; able to engage credibly with design and systems engineers without needing to be the deepest technical expert.
• Execution discipline: Strong command of scope, schedule, resource planning, budget/forecast management, risk mitigation, change control, and program governance.
• Influence: Ability to align teams without direct authority, resolve conflicts, make decisions visible, and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Communication: Clear, concise written and verbal communication with engineers, operations teams, customers, and leadership.
• Adaptability: Comfort operating in fast-moving environments where requirements, technology, and priorities evolve.

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.

Salary

The stated range includes Base Salary and target Short-Term Incentive (STI) compensation only. A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this range.

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

$123K - 191K

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.

Typical Experience

• 8 + years of relevant experience in technical program management, hardware engineering, systems engineering, operations, or a related field.
• Experience with new product introduction, hardware integration, validation, manufacturing, supply-chain coordination, or customer delivery is strongly valued.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, operations, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Educational Requirements may vary by Geography.

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.

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