Role Description This is a technical business operations leadership role dedicated to the internal resource management of the Hardware Platform Solutions (HPS) engineering group. As the Operations Lead, you are responsible for the strategic oversight and day-to-day management of a team of internal buyers and administrative staff executing budget tracking and asset management. You ensure that high-stakes hardware development remains fiscally transparent by providing the engineering team with a 360-degree view of all internal costs—from equipment investments to project-specific spending and general overhead. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred. - 7+ years of experience in project operations or departmental budget management, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or team-lead capacity within a hardware, manufacturing, or R&D environment. - Deep understanding of tracking CAPEX (fixed technical assets) and OPEX (variable project spend and general overhead). - Proven ability to manage a small team while handling complex data sets and procurement workflows in a fast-paced engineering setting. - Ability to "speak the language" of engineers while providing clear, authoritative direction to administrative and buying staff. Requirements - Manage a team of internal buyers and admins; define clear roles and responsibilities to ensure the "Purchase-to-Pay" workflow meets critical engineering milestones. - Establish and enforce standardized procurement protocols for the team to ensure data integrity and audit readiness across all HPS financial transactions. - Act as the escalation point for complex procurement hurdles, streamlining communication between buyers, vendors, and the engineering lab. - Oversee the end-to-end tracking of hardware-specific capital investments, including lab instrumentation, specialized machinery, and testing infrastructure. - Partner with engineering leads and your buying team to ensure all equipment procurement follows internal workflows and stays within the department’s allocated investment envelope. - Execute real-time monitoring of internal operational spending, focusing on prototype materials, vendor-on-premise costs, and specialized engineering software licenses. - Lead monthly budget reviews with admins and buyers to identify and correct variances between planned spend and actuals, flagging risks to engineering leadership. - Track and manage the HPS group’s internal overhead, including facilities-related hardware costs, recurring software subscriptions, and general lab supplies. - Mentor the administrative team on financial software and budget tracking tools to improve the accuracy of reporting and the speed of procurement cycles. - Own and update the HPS Operations Dashboard (Power BI, Tableau, or Excel), translating raw spending data from your team into simple, scannable insights for the technical team. - Act as the internal point of contact for navigating procurement and business management systems to ensure the lab has the resources it needs to operate efficiently. Company Description Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

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• Serve as the primary incident lead during your region’s daytime hours, coordinating technical investigations, centralizing communication, and engaging the appropriate engineering and SRE teams when escalation is required. • Respond to escalations from Tier 1 support, using runbooks, metrics, logs, and system diagnostics to investigate and remediate issues or determine when escalation to Tier 3 is necessary. • Develop and update runbooks, workflows, and operational documentation to ensure consistent and reliable responses to recurring issues, collaborating with product teams to expand coverage over time. • Write, maintain, and enhance automation scripts and tools that streamline common remediation steps, improve response times, and reduce manual operational overhead. • Use metrics, logs, and tracing tools (Grafana/Prometheus, GCP Monitoring, OpenTelemetry) to proactively identify problems, validate system behavior, and support continuous improvement of detection mechanisms. • Act as the central point of communication during active incidents, ensuring timely updates and clear routing to the correct product engineering and SRE stakeholders. • Collaborate with reliability and product teams to share insights, recommend improvements, and help refine processes that enhance the stability and operability of our systems. • Participate in a shared weekend on-call rotation to help maintain operational coverage for production systems, responding to incidents and escalations as needed and coordinating with engineering teams when issues arise. • Help establish operational best practices, refine workflows, and prepare the foundation for a broader reliability operations function.

• Lead incident investigations during your region’s daytime hours, providing timely updates, escalating appropriately, and supporting senior engineers leading the response. • Respond to escalations from Tier 1 support using established runbooks, metrics, logs, and diagnostics to remediate issues or escalate to Tier 3 when needed. • Update runbooks and operational documentation based on new issues, discoveries, and feedback, ensuring clarity and consistency across all procedures. • Run existing automations and collaborate with senior team members to enhance tooling and scripts that streamline troubleshooting and remediation tasks. • Use observability tools such as Grafana/Prometheus, GCP Monitoring, and OpenTelemetry to interpret metrics, logs, and traces, helping identify anomalies and validate system performance. • Provide concise, accurate updates during incidents, ensuring information reaches the correct engineering and SRE contacts and supporting structured incident coordination. • Participate in discussions around root causes, share operational insights, and contribute to process improvements that enhance system stability and supportability. • Participate in a shared weekend on-call rotation to help maintain operational coverage for production systems, responding to incidents and escalations as needed and coordinating with engineering teams when issues arise. • Proactively strengthen workflows, adopt best practices, and build the foundation of the Reliability Operations function as it evolves.