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Date:

Oct 13, 2026

Location:

Newmarket, ON, CA

Role overview The Manager, Test Development Engineering leads the development and delivery of test solutions used in manufacturing and design-validation environments. This includes automated test equipment, test software, fixtures, instrumentation, and test programs that help ensure robust, high-quality products.

The Manager will manage a team of 3 to 5 direct reports, providing them strategic direction, technical oversight, operational leadership, and talent development for the Test Development Engineering function. The role partners with project management, site leadership, quality, business development, solutions, and global engineering teams to deliver effective test capabilities aligned with customer, project, and business requirements.

The manager is expected to remain technically engaged and provide direction, review, and escalation support while enabling the engineering team to own day-to-day project execution.

Key responsibilities Functional leadership and business planning

Establish a customer-focused, team-oriented, and high-performance culture across the function and project teams.

Set annual objectives, operating plans, capability priorities, and resource plans in partnership with the Engineering Services Leader/Director

Deploy global engineering strategies, standards, tools, and improvements within the Newmarket function.

Manage resources and operating costs, including capital and direct expenditures, while balancing employee, customer, project, and business needs.

Collaborate with other engineering services functions to leverage shared expertise, tools, processes, and capabilities.





Monitor and improve functional performance using measures such as on-time delivery, test quality and coverage, production yield, test-escape reduction, project margin, customer satisfaction, employee retention, and capability development.

People leadership and talent development

Recruit, onboard, retain, and develop engineers and technical team members with the skills required to support current and future business needs.

Conduct regular one-on-ones, set clear objectives, remove roadblocks, and provide timely coaching and feedback.

Lead performance reviews, career development, succession planning, and leadership development within the function.

Build effective mentorship and training approaches in partnership with technical leaders and subject-matter experts.

Foster an inclusive, accountable, and high-performance team environment.

Project execution and customer delivery

Provide functional oversight for engineering projects, including technical reviews, resource planning, risk identification, problem solving, and escalation support.

Partner with Project Managers on scope, schedule, cost, risk, and delivery commitments; the manager owns functional capability and technical quality rather than overall project administration unless otherwise assigned.

Review technical content for proposals, quotations,



statements of work, and customer presentations.

Support new customer engagements in partnership with Business Development, Sales, Solutions, Program Management, Site Leadership, and other functional teams.

Monitor project health and customer satisfaction, taking action when delivery, quality, technical, or resource risks emerge.

Technical leadership and innovation

Guide the development of manufacturing and design-validation test strategies, architectures, equipment, software, fixtures, instrumentation, and test programs.

Provide technical direction on complex engineering problems and ensure appropriate technical reviews are completed.

Ensure the team has the tools, equipment, training, and resources needed to execute effectively.

Promote practical use of test data, automation, and engineering analysis to improve product quality, development speed, and manufacturing performance.

Maintain awareness of relevant industry practices, technologies, standards, and regulations, and translate them into functional improvements.

Process, quality, and continuous improvement

Help define and maintain functional standards, processes, templates, and best practices to improve consistency and quality across projects.

Support compliance with Celestica processes and the quality system.

Lead or support continuous-improvement, corrective-action, and preventive-action (CAPA) activities within the function.

Establish and review key performance indicators, identify gaps, and implement corrective actions.

Promote effective documentation, knowledge sharing, lessons learned, and reuse of proven test solutions.

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