The paper presents a new discrete projection method (DPM) for the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations with Coriolis force term. We treat one time step of the projection method as the iteration of an Uzawa type algorithm with special preconditioning for the pressure block. This enables us to modify the well-known projection method in a way to account for possibly dominating Coriolis terms. We consider a special multigrid method for solving the velocity subproblems and a modified projection (pressure correction) step. Results of numerical tests are presented for a model problem as well as for 3D flow simulations in stirred tank reactors.