CMC 2024 Sustainability Report
  1. Social
  2. Talent Management
  3. Building Competencies
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Building Competencies

  • 404-2 Programs for upgrading employee skills and transition assistance programs

We are committed to investing in our employees, enabling them to advance and achieve fulfilling careers, which also helps CMC develop tomorrow’s leaders to power our growth and ensure our future success. Our training and development programs begin with Core, our rotational training program for new entry-level hires in corporate, commercial or operational positions. The Core program had over 30 participants in 2024 who gained technical experience and received exposure to different lines of business.

CMC also has its Management Development Program (MDP), which is designed to enable high-potential mid-career employees to expand their skills and gain experience in different lines of business. Participants learn from senior leadership and receive 360-degree feedback, individual coaching and additional training. In 2024, 24 employees participated in the MDP and as we look to expand the program in 2025, we will be introducing a dedicated MDP program for our international employees.

Learning the Ropes

One of our capstone programs, Modern Steelmaker Program,  which first launched in 2021 at one of our mills in Mesa, Arizona.

The program began in partnership with Mesa Community College. The program provides students with paid opportunities to learn the steelmaking process in a one-year apprenticeship combining four months of classroom instruction with an eight-month rotational program at the mill to apply the skills they learned in the classroom.

We have expanded the program to additional facilities and in 2023 we graduated students from Tennessee College of Applied Technology who went on to work at CMC Steel Tennessee in Knoxville and students from Kiamichi Tech-Durant who went on to work at CMC Steel Oklahoma in Durant. Partnerships have also been formed between CMC Steel New Jersey and Morris College, and CMC Steel West Virginia and Blue Ridge Community and Technical College.