United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) has promoted David E. Hathaway Jr. as the general manager – engineering projects. Starting July 2013, he will be overseeing the engineering projects at all North American U. S. Steel facilities. He will be working out of the company’s headquarters and will report to Anthony R. Bridge, vice president — engineering and research & development.
Hathaway, 46, joined U. S. Steel in 2000 as a process engineer at Gary Works in Gary, Ind. Later that year, he transitioned to a project-engineering role and began to advance through a series of increasingly responsible positions, including serving as the general manager – engineering at the company’s former U. S. Steel Serbia facility and engineering site manager at Granite City Works (Ill.). His most recent assignment was as the project manager of the Continuous Annealing Line Project at PRO-TEC Coating Company, a joint venture by U. S. Steel and Kobe Steel in Leipsic, Ohio. Prior to joining U. S. Steel, Hathaway worked for the former ICF Kaiser Engineers (now Hatch) in Pittsburgh.
Hathaway graduated from Purdue University Calumet in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology. He is pursuing his master’s in business administration through Indiana Wesleyan University.