Vought Named Best Places to Work In Martin County, Florida

STUART, FLA., OCT. 28, 2009 – Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. has been recognized as a Best Places to Work in Martin County by a local human resources professional association. Vought is one of three companies to receive the recognition in the category of more than 250 employees.

The selection was based on a Martin County questionnaire (from a nationally recognized workplace evaluation program) regarding workplace opportunities and benefits. 

 “This award is a nice validation of what we’re doing right,” said Paul Sandhu, Vought general manager in Stuart. “Vought strives to provide the best possible work environment. Our workforce knows we are genuinely concerned about the safety and well-being of every person at the site.”

Best Places to Work is a national program that was developed to provide a confidential forum for local employers to participate in an evaluation of various workplace best practices and programs. Approximately 25 companies submitted applications for the Martin County award, which was administered by the Human Resource Management Association of Martin County (HR Martin County). HR Martin County is an affiliate chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), the world's largest association devoted to human resource management.

Vought’s Stuart operation opened in 1950 as a Grumman company operation adjacent to Witham Field. Workers at the site manufacture a variety of airframe components for many Boeing commercial airplanes, including the wing center section and doors for the 767; inboard flaps for the 777; doors and the lower rudder for the 747-8. They also build engine nacelles and cowl doors for Gulfstream and Hawker Beechcraft business jets.

Vought won new work with Boeing earlier this year, and plans are underway to expand the Stuart site for the additional production work. The new statements of work include inboard flaps for the 737; and outboard flaps and ailerons for the 777. Vought anticipates the 8,000 square-foot expansion project to be completed by the second quarter of 2010.

About Vought

Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc. (www.voughtaircraft.com) is one of the world's largest independent suppliers of aerostructures. Headquartered in Dallas, the company designs and manufactures major airframe structures such as wings, fuselage subassemblies, empennages, nacelles and other components for prime manufacturers of aircraft. Vought has annual sales of approximately $1.8 billion and about 6,000 employees in eight U.S. locations.