Training and Workforce
Textron Aviation Workforce Initiatives Paying Dividends
Company opened a $40 million Career & Learning Center
Textron Career & Learning Center Learning Zone West Bay Hangar (Photo: Textron Aviation)
Trainees get hands-on experience at the Textron Career & Learning Center Learning Zone West Bay Hangar. © Textron Aviation

Textron Aviation is seeing early successes through several workforce training initiatives—from its new career center to its veterans’ programs—as it continues its hiring at a rate of about 100 employees a month, company executives told AIN.

The cornerstone of its workforce training initiative is the new $40 million Career & Learning Center that had a soft opening last year and a formal dedication six months ago with dignitaries such as Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas). That facility, on the east side of Wichita at its campus where the Beechcraft product line is produced, was transformed from a parts warehouse into a multipurpose recruitment, pre-employment, and training center.

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