What Happened?
Pittsburgh, PA-based U.S. Steel hired Nancy Sykes as VP of HR.
About the Company
United States Steel Corporation, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada and Central Europe and an annual raw steelmaking capability of 29.3 million net tons. The company manufactures a wide range of value-added steel sheet and tubular products for the automotive, appliance, container, industrial machinery, construction, and oil and gas industries. U. S. Steel`s integrated steel facilities include Gary Works, which is made up of Gary Works in Gary, Ind., East Chicago Tin in East Chicago, Ind., and Midwest Plant in Portage, Ind.; Great Lakes Works in Ecorse and River Rouge, Mich.; Mon Valley Works, which includes Edgar Thomson Plant and Irvin Plant near Pittsburgh, Pa., and Fairless Plant near Philadelphia, Pa.; Granite City Works in Granite City, Ill.; Fairfield Works in Fairfield, Ala.; Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario, and Hamilton Works in Hamilton, Ontario, both of which make up U. S. Steel Canada; and U. S. Steel Košice in the Slovak Republic. U. S. Steel is also involved in several steel finishing joint ventures in the United States, Brazil, Canada and Mexico. U. S. Steel prides itself on being a leader in both process and product technology and has four research and development facilities dedicated to advancing the boundaries of steelmaking: the Research and Technology Center in Munhall, Pa.; the Automotive Center, a research and sales facility in Troy, Mich.; the U. S. Steel Tubular Products Innovation and Technology Center in Houston, Texas; and USSE Research in Košice. U. S. Steel has tubular operations in Bellville, Houston, Hughes Springs, and Lone Star, Texas; Pine Bluff, Ark.; Fairfield, Ala.; Lorain, Ohio; and McKeesport, Pa. The company also maintains tubular products sales offices in Denver, Co., Dallas and Houston, Texas, and Calgary, Alberta Canada. U. S. Steel produces coke at Mon Valley Works` Clairton Plant near Pittsburgh as well as at Gary Works, Granite City Works, Lake Erie Works, Hamilton Works and U. S. Steel Košice. The company operates two iron ore mines through its Minnesota Ore Operations on the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota: one in Mt. Iron (Minntac) and one in Keewatin (Keetac). Both mine an iron-bearing rock called taconite and process it into concentrated iron ore pellets, which are converted to liquid iron in the company`s blast furnaces. U. S. Steel is also involved in railroad and barge transportation services through its Transtar, Inc. subsidiary and real estate operations through its USS Real Estate division. Every day, U. S. Steel employees around the world dedicate themselves to putting the company`s five core values into action. Safety is first – it`s U. S. Steel`s top priority. The other core values are diversity and inclusion; environmental stewardship; focus on cost, quality and customer; and results and accountability. Focusing on these values guides the company`s highly skilled workforce toward realizing U. S. Steel`s Vision: Making Steel. World Competitive. Building Value. U. S. Steel`s operations are efficient and high tech, and the company`s customer focus is intense. U. S. Steel has been making steel for more than 110 years, always with an eye to serving customers` needs in the most cost-effective ways possible. Companies that want to be competitive in an increasingly global marketplace must have a global outlook and presence. U. S. Steel continually looks for opportunities to strengthen the company`s existing presence in the global arena and strives to meet and set world-class standards in everything it does. At U. S. Steel, creating value for the company`s stakeholders is a priority. To ensure the company`s long-term success, it aims to build value for customers, employees, shareholders, creditors, and the communities in which it operates using the same responsible approach that has positioned U. S. Steel as a leader in the global steel industry.
About the Person
Nancy Sykes is executive vice president and chief human resources officer of Southern Company Services, providing direction to the overall enterprise of America’s premier energy company. Sykes is responsible for managing the human resources and labor relations function for Southern Company and all of its subsidiaries, which serve 9 million electric and gas utility customers across the country. She also develops and implements human capital strategies to attract, engage and motivate the current workforce and the workforce of the future. She joined Southern Company from U.S. Steel, where she served as vice president and chief human resources officer since 2015. There, she was responsible for all facets of the company’s human resources organization, including employee development, talent management and acquisition, compensation and medical and health services. Sykes joined U.S. Steel after spending more than five years with The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Her last role at Goodyear was vice president for human resources, Asia Pacific, with responsibility of all aspects of human resources for the company’s Asia Pacific strategic business unit across 12 countries. Prior to Goodyear, she worked at General Electric for 20 years in a number of the GE industrial businesses. A native of Binghamton, N.Y., Sykes graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. She is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt
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