U. S. Steel Names General Manager of Granite City Works
02/29/2008 - United States Steel appoints Sharon K. Owen as General Manager of Granite City Works in Granite City, Ill.
As part of a wave of personnel moves across the United States Steel Corp. organization, the company has appointed Sharon K. Owen as General Manager of Granite City Works in Granite City, Ill.
Owen replaces David J. Rintoul, who was named General Manager of Great Lakes Works in Ecorse and River Rouge, Mich. Owen will report to Michael S. Williams, Vice President—Operations, Midwest. The change is effective March 1.
In her new position, Owen, 53, will oversee operations at the St. Louis-area plant, which has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 2.8 million net tons.
Owen started at U. S. Steel’s Gary Works in 1978, and subsequently progressed through several supervisory positions in the quality assurance department before serving as Customer Technical Services Representative at several sales offices in the East and Midwest beginning in 1990.
From 1993 to 1994, Owen served as Manager of Quality Assurance for the Mon Valley Works' Fairless Plant, and from 1994 to 1995 she served as Senior Area Manager—Steel Producing at Gary Works. In 1996, Owen moved to headquarters as Manager of Automotive Marketing. She advanced through a number of sales and marketing positions in automotive and tin products, and in 2003, she was named General Manager—Commercial, Tin Products. In 2004, she advanced to the position of General Manager—Automotive, a position based at U. S.
Steel's Automotive Center, an automotive customer-dedicated sales and research facility in Troy, Mich.
In August 2005, Owen was named Plant Manager—Midwest Plant, a finishing facility in Portage, Ind. She assumed her most recent assignment as Plant Manager—Primary Operations at Gary Works, in September 2006, where she was responsible for the plant's primary steelmaking operation.
Owen earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University in 1978 and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998.
