20220233 SSUUSTSTAAINAINABBILITILITY REY REPPORORTT Featured Stories CONTINUEDCONTINUED Message from Management Neurodiversity hiring pilot program continues to gain momentum 1. Overview Our Infrastructure Engineering team based in Lone Tree, About Kiewit Colorado, is piloting a neurodiversity hiring program. Sustainability at Kiewit According to the National Institutes of Health, the term Our Projects neurodiversity, “describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many ways, 2. Governance with no one ‘right’ way of thinking, learning, and behaving, Corporate Governance and di昀昀erences are not deficits. Neurodiversity refers to Supply Chain the diversity of all people, but it is often used in the context of autism spectrum disorder and other neurological or 3. Environmental developmental disorders such as ADHD or dyslexia." Environmental Stewardship The program started with a lot of research and engagement Greenhouse Gases & with other companies and organizations coordinating and Energy Consumption advocating for neurodiversity hiring programs. The team engaged with an external consultant – Neurodiversity in the 4. Social Workplace (NITW) – to help guide their next steps. employees leading the pilot program acknowledge that its Large Employer Award for the neurodiversity pilot there have been a lot of learning moments. Notably, program, following nomination by one of the consultants Health & Safety First, they identified roles that would be a good fit for the realization that some employees in Kiewit's existing our team engaged. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion a wide range of neurodiverse candidates. This set the workforce may identify as neurodiverse. As a result, an Talent & Workforce stage for their first skills-based hiring event in December emphasis of some of their internal conversations has been The employees who oversee the program are humbled Development 2022. Skills-based hiring allows candidates to directly on education about Kiewit’s accommodation process. by ASPE’s recognition, but acknowledge the e昀昀ort is just Community Engagement demonstrate their competencies. The format addresses a This has also been emphasized at the corporate level getting started. They suspect the recognition may be common barrier for many neurodiverse candidates seeking on all-company DEI calls and intranet articles highlighting partially because neurodiversity hiring programs are not Appendix employment. Four people were hired after the December the program. common in construction and engineering. 2022 skills-based hiring event. NITW helps the team support newly hired employees and their managers. Another hiring event was held in September 2023. They have been intentional about managing the program responsibly and establishing a foundation that can be built Importantly, NITW also conducts lunch-and-learn training The Colorado Association for People Supporting upon to potentially expand the program beyond their group open to all the department’s employees. The Kiewit Employment First (APSE) recently recognized KIE with in the future. 66666666