Manager, Test Development Engineering

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.

• Establish a customer-focused collaborative 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bachelors degree in engineering or a related technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Typically 7 or more years of relevant experience in test engineering test development or a combination of test and other experience eg. manufacturing engineering engineering operations program or project leadership or a related field.
• Experience leading engineers or technical teams including coaching performance management resource planning and talent development.
• Experience delivering test solutions in manufacturing product development design verification or a comparable engineering environment.
• Practical understanding of automated test equipment test software instrumentation data acquisition fixtures test coverage and test-data analysis.
• Ability to provide technical oversight across both structural and functional testing activities even when the manager is not the deepest technical specialist in every area.
• Demonstrated experience with project risk management technical reviews problem solving and cross-functional delivery.
• Strong communication presentation negotiation stakeholder-management and customer-interaction skills.
• Working knowledge of quality systems corrective and preventive action continuous improvement and compliance expectations.
• Ability to develop functional plans budgets proposals business cases or change-management plans and align them with business priorities.

• Experience in a contract manufacturing electronics manufacturing product development or engineering-services environment.
• Experience supporting quality systems internal or external audits compliance programs or corrective-action processes.
• Experience supporting customer proposals quotations technical presentations or new-business engagements.
• Experience working across industries such as aerospace and defense healthcare technology industrial or power infrastructure.
• Practical experience using approved AI tools to improve workflows organize information or support data analysis while maintaining company confidentiality and data-protection requirements.

Working familiarity with relevant engineering and business tools is expected. Examples may include LabVIEW Python Jira Microsoft Excel Word PowerPoint Project SolidWorks Altium Google Workspace or equivalent tools. Expertise in every listed tool is not required; candidates should be able to learn and guide the use of tools appropriate to the functions work.

• This role may involve work across office laboratory engineering and manufacturing environments. The manager may interact with development personnel customers suppliers and engineering teams at other sites. Occasional travel to customer-site or productions sites may be required.

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

The range is an estimate determined by the Company and may change based on factors including the duties covered by the position the successful candidates credentials and experience and the applicable geographic jurisdiction.

Salary Range: CAD $104732-$157719

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Employees may be required to perform other related duties and are accountable for the responsibilities assigned to them. Job duties and the percentage of time associated with each function may change based on business needs.