Previously, Mullarkey was holding the post of VP-technology.
Jacko will report to Anton Lukac, VP-engineering and technology at U.S. Steel.
Pat and Vladimir have the knowledge, experience and leadership skills necessary to ensure that our Slovakian facilities continue to be operated safely, effectively and efficiently, said Babcoke.
Mullarkey will be in charge for oversight of day-to-day operations at the Slovakian subsidiary’s facilities. He started his career in the steel industry with Inland Steel in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1981 and moved through a series of supervisory and management positions in the company’s iron and steel making operations. In 1994, he was with Raytheon Engineers & Constructors as the lead engineer for the Blast Furnace Reline Division and held that position until joining U. S. Steel in 2000.
Mullarkey’s first project with U.S. Steel was area manager-operating and maintenance, South blast furnaces at Gary Works in Gary, Indiana. After advancing through a series of increasingly responsible managerial positions, he was assigned to the Gary Works’ #14 Blast Furnace construction project in 2005. When the project was concluded, Mullarkey transferred to Pittsburgh headquarters to serve as director-engineering project development. He joined his most recent position, VP-technology at U. S. Steel Kosice, in January 2007.
Mullarkey graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana, in 2004.
As VP-technology, Jacko, and a native of Kosice, will be in charge for engineering activities, research and product technology. He started his professional career as a teacher of electro-technical subjects and joined the former Eastern Slovakian Steelworks in 1996 as a dispatcher at the facility’s power plant. Over the next five years, he progressed through a series of increasingly responsible positions before being named deputy director of the power plant in 2001; one year after U. S. Steel had acquired the integrated steelmaking operation. In 2003, he was named general manager-energy for U.S. Steel Kosice and assumed added responsibility for transportation in 2005.
In 2006, Jacko relocated to the US after being appointed division manager-utilities, shops and services at U. S. Steel’s Fairfield Works. He returned to Kosice in January 2009 when he advanced to his most recent position, general manager-energy strategies.
Jacko graduated from Technical University in Kosice in 1986 with a master’s degree in electrotechnics. He finished post-graduate studies in economics in 1998. In 2002, he completed his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He achieved a doctorate degree from the Mining Faculty, Technical University in Kosice in 2007.
Formerly Jacko is a board member of the Association of Metallurgy, Mining and Geology and a former executive committee member in the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
U.S. Steel Corporation is a US based steel producer.
