Uniquely Positioned for Growth throughTalent Development

Curtiss-Wright is accelerating its talent development through a variety of programs to ensure that the organization's skills and knowledge keep pace with the continuing expansion of our businesses.

Our success depends on acute business knowledge, engineering innovation, refined technical skills and imagination. Curtiss-Wright is continually focused on maintaining and expanding our employees' capacity for professional excellence through rigorous programs that nourish individual talent, expand team effectiveness, leverage experience and knowledge and enhance technical and management skills.

Curtiss-Wright created an in-depth curriculum designed to accelerate leadership development and promote a common culture. The leadership development curriculum provides leaders at every level with new tools and skills to align with and execute the company's vision and strategies. Since these programs began in 2007, more than 800 participants have attended one or more sessions.

We also develop leadership competencies that tie to the company's values and success profiles for every leadership role. A key component of this initiative is an Executive Leadership Development Program, in which over 100 high-potential employees have participated. The program provides insight into each individual's leadership style by utilizing assessment tools in conjunction with personalized coaching.

Other programs focus on enhancing our core capabilities and raising the performance of critical functions, such as project management, to the next level through the creation of professional development programs. To date, nearly 300 executives, line managers and project managers have attended one or more of the programs offered.

Curtiss-Wright's Technical Fellow Program aims to develop and retain in-house expertise to support current and future organizational objectives, and to better position the company to respond to future technical challenges. The program recognizes technical experts who are authorities in specific engineering fields that are of major importance to Curtiss-Wright. This program allows the company to leverage expertise more effectively while providing program participants the opportunity for high‐level career growth and development outside of the management stream. These individuals represent the top-tier of engineering excellence, matching industry benchmarks and standards.

In addition, we tailor talent development programs to support the more localized nature of some of our operating facilities. Facility-based education and training programs focus on increasing productivity, energy efficiency and safety. They incorporate use of visual management, lean manufacturing techniques and the development of more efficient equipment designs to streamline part flow and decrease turn times. All activities support a culture of continuous productivity improvement, which is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage in quality, price and turn times.

As exemplified by legendary aviation pioneers Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers, engineering is based on knowledge, technical skill and imagination. In that tradition, Curtiss-Wright continues to take the actions needed to maintain and expand our employees' capacity for professional excellence in the face of the world's most critical business and engineering challenges.