Managing Director of Transportation and President, Transtar
United States Steel Corporation
Malisa
J. Sommers, a native of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, earned her bachelor’s
degree in Industrial Management from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1988
and her master’s degree in Business Administration from Franciscan University
of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1994.
Before
joining U.S. Steel in 2001, Malisa
worked for Wheeling-Nisshin, Inc., a steel coating facility in Follansbee, West
Virginia, for 13 years. She spent her first three years with U.S. Steel at Straightline,
the company’s former steel distribution subsidiary, serving two years as
manager of demand fulfillment and one year as manager of customer care.
In
2004, she moved to U.S. Steel’s corporate headquarters after being
named manager of purchasing information technology. One year later, she
advanced to manager of CAPEX procurement, in which she managed procurement
activities related to capital expenditure projects around the company. In 2007,
Malisa was named manager of materials management, and in 2009, she advanced to
general manager of global materials management and procurement operations, with
responsibility for parts and materials inventory management and procurement
support activities at every U.S. Steel facility in North America and
Central Europe.
Malisa
assumed her current position, managing director of Transportation, in February
2011 and is responsible for various aspects of transportation and logistics,
including the logistics services group headed by James V. Bard, at
U.S. Steel facilities in North America. She also oversees operations
at the railroad and barge companies that comprise Transtar, Inc.: Birmingham
Southern Railroad Company, Delray Connecting Railroad Company, Fairfield
Southern Company, Gary Railway Company, Lake Terminal Railroad Company, Lorain
Northern Company, McKeesport Connecting Railroad Company, Texas & Northern
Railway Company, Union Railroad Company, and Warrior & Gulf Navigation,
LLC.
Malisa
serves on the board of directors of Family House.