With approximately 32,000 employees throughout 33 countries, there’s never a shortage of interesting facts to learn about KBR. Each quarter, KBR Fast Facts fills you in on some new and exciting things you may not know about our people, culture and work from across the globe.
Only available in certain countries, the KBR Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) allows you to purchase KBR stock at a discount, save for your future and share in KBR's growth and success. When you choose to participate in the ESPP, you set aside a small amount of each paycheck — on an after-tax basis — to purchase KBR stock at a discount. You have an opportunity to buy shares of KBR stock during the two enrollment periods in July and December each year. Deductions from your paycheck will begin in August and February following each enrollment period.
The opinions and feedback of our people are the greatest assets we have in our mission to make KBR the best company to work for. Last year we had >60% participation and are looking to aim even higher! Look out for the next People Perspectives survey launching July 2023.
Throughout the last five years, KBR's Government Solutions (GS) APAC Engineering Graduate program has trained 15 young engineers. These talented individuals play an important role in ensuring the security and safety of the Royal Australian Navy's largest capital assets, the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) and Landing Ship Dock, through their work at the Amphibious Combat and Sealift Systems Program Office (ACSSPO).
KBR’s partnership at Sellafield Ltd has set another precedent for the nuclear industry by becoming the first to receive the National Centre for Diversity’s Investors in Diversity Award. The accreditation is recognized as the national equality standard providing organizations with a bespoke approach to embedding equality, diversity, inclusion and fairness in all that it does.
Sustainability is fundamental to all of KBR’s activities, guiding our approach and informing our global activities to support our people, our communities and our planet for future generations. To celebrate Earth Day, colleagues from around the globe celebrated by cleaning up their local environments.
KBR played an integral role in NASA’s historic Artemis I mission, providing support through mission planning and launch operations, SLS development, human health and performance, payload engineering and telemetry.
Want to keep up with the latest and greatest happenings in the world and in our various industries? Check out In Orbit! The podcast episodes cover everything from science and technology to sustainability, inclusion and diversity, and more! You can listen to In Orbit at our hosting site or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher.
KBR was instrumental in the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's Surface Aviation Interoperability Laboratory (SAIL) team being awarded the Department of the Navy (DON) Test and Evaluation (T&E) Award for 2022 for solving major challenges pertaining to the MH-60R/S and H-1 test teams. The team also exceeded expectations regarding support provided to the development, test, and evaluation of datalink systems across nearly every aircraft and ship in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory. Nominated by the SAIL team, this is the first time KBR has been a part of the award-winning collaboration.
KBR’s Michael Kluck published his first book on modularization! Michael is one of KBR’s module subject matter experts and develops feasibility studies for our clients as well as follow-up efforts on subsequent module planning and project execution modeling. Over his 27 years with KBR, Michael has been involved in engineering design supervision and project management of major upstream and downstream projects worldwide.
KBR's Science and Space business unit was recently awarded the prestigious Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence in research and development by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Given only every three years, this award recognizes our commitment to utilizing small businesses as suppliers and subcontractors and our excellence in managing our small business program, utilization, and reporting requirements.
KBR successfully completed the start-up of a phenol acetone plant with a capacity of 280,000 tons per year for Guangxi Huayi New Materials in Qinzhou City of Guangxi Province, China. This project uses KBR's world-leading phenol acetone technology. KBR’s team faced significant obstacles due to stringent ongoing COVID lockdowns but successfully carried out the mechanical completion inspection, commissioning and start-up site services for the plant between 2019 and December 2022.
KBR set a record for the fastest phenol, acetone technology start-up this year. KBR, the world's leading supplier of phenol and acetone technology, signed an agreement with Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd. to provide technology to build a 650 KTA phenol/acetone plant in Yantai City, Shandong Province in China. Through the joint efforts of Wanhua Chemical and KBR teams, the plant began producing qualified products in only eight days, a record for the fastest ever start-up using KBR's phenol acetone technology.
KBR is excited to announce the Next Gen of Flex Work for all employees. It was recently rolled out to U.S. employees. Additional countries coming soon!
Did you know KBR’s Integrated Productivity Solutions team works with aerospace manufacturers to ensure flight safety in the skies and in space through smart asset management, facility design and support, customer and supplier quality assurance, and metrology support? Learn more about this wide range of capabilities.
