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Friday, February 17, 2012

IT positions for students at US Steel - #1

IT/Application Developer Co-op – 1693

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 31.7 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. United States Steel Corporation’s Information Technology organization, the Business Service Center (BSC), provides IT services to headquarters and production operations globally.

Every day, U. S. Steel employees around the world dedicate themselves to putting our five core values into action. Safety is first – it’s our company’s top priority. Our other core values are diversity and inclusion; environmental stewardship; focus on cost, quality and customer; and results and accountability. Focusing on these values guides our highly skilled workforce toward realizing our Vision: Making Steel, World Competitive, Building Value.


Job responsibilities vary depending on the student’s education, skills, and placement. They may include but are not limited to the following:

• Participate in application development training as needed, dependent upon the application area assigned, and apply training to work assignments.
• Work as an integral member of a team to support systems that enable business and plant processes such as Order Management, Human Resources, Accounting, Procurement, Business Intelligence and Plant Systems on a variety of computing platforms with various programming languages including testing and documentation.
• Write custom programs as required for software implementation, application interfaces, reports and inquiry screens in line with business and technical specifications provided. Follow BSC quality processes for testing, documentation, and approvals for assigned work.
• Work independently and with minimal direction in the areas of application software maintenance and development, analysis, and troubleshooting per customer requests.
• Daily interaction with team members, internal business units, and external customers.

Job Requirements:
• Candidates must be a full-time student pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or any IT related field.
• Candidates must have completed or be working towards completion of their sophomore year and be in good academic standing.
• Candidates must be willing to work one of two schedules: two semesters at 16-20 hours per week followed by one summer of 40 hours per week or one semester of 40 hours per week plus one summer of 40 hours per week.
·         Please apply online at www.ussteel.com and Keyword 1693