Jobs at Quanex Building Products

Develop and maintain business intelligence solutions, including reports, dashboards, KPIs, data models, ETL processes, and data integrations. Gather requirements from business stakeholders, optimize SQL queries, support reporting databases, and ensure data accuracy, governance, and performance. Collaborate with DBAs, application teams, analysts, and business users while documenting solutions, providing ad hoc analysis, and communicating technical information clearly.

Manages customer pricing across hardware and extruded solutions, ensuring accurate ERP entry, approvals, audit trails, contract compliance, and profitability. Performs pricing analysis by customer and product, maintains surcharge programs and analytical tools, resolves pricing and invoicing issues, supports continuous improvement, and communicates pricing information to internal teams and customers.

Leads planning and logistics strategy across production, materials, inventory, and freight operations. Creates capacity and demand plans, maintains planning parameters, monitors inventory risks, supports procurement and S&OP, evaluates vendor performance, and develops operational metrics. Uses ERP and SQL data to improve production planning, material utilization, inventory turns, transportation costs, and customer commitment dates. Manages people and collaborates with finance, procurement, customer service, and manufacturing leadership.

Leads Quanex’s enterprise cybersecurity program, overseeing security monitoring, alerting, risk management, architecture, policies, compliance, incident response, vendor risk, audits, and outsourced SOC/MDR partnerships. Manages cybersecurity personnel and collaborates with IT, business leaders, vendors, auditors, and global teams to improve security maturity, resilience, and risk posture.

Leads the development, optimization, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes. Uses data analysis and statistical tools to improve efficiency, quality, productivity, and costs; develops SOPs and work instructions; designs and leads capital equipment installations; modifies products and processes; and provides technical support to production, engineering, maintenance, and quality teams.

Owns cost accounting and financial analysis across 11 manufacturing plants. Responsibilities include standard costing, inventory valuation, variance analysis, month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, ERP cost updates, SOX compliance, audit support, KPI reporting, and process improvement. Partners with plant controllers and operations leaders to improve cost visibility, inventory accuracy, reporting integrity, and manufacturing performance.

Engineer and support Azure and on-premises infrastructure, including Windows Server, Active Directory, identity management, monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, and security. Provide advanced technical support, manage ServiceNow incidents, monitor performance, perform root cause analysis, implement system improvements, document solutions, and contribute to infrastructure projects. The role requires PowerShell scripting, collaboration with vendors and internal teams, limited-direction work, and up to 10% travel.

Develop and maintain product demand forecasts by analyzing trends, collaborating with Sales, Customers, and Product Management, and leading forecast reviews. Track forecast accuracy, support product launches and phase-outs, communicate demand across plants, and coordinate forecast changes with Operations. Partner with Master Planners and Supply Chain Managers to align demand with production capacity, inventory objectives, and customer planning programs.

Provides hands-on IT support across office and manufacturing environments, including user assistance, hardware and software management, Help Desk ticket coordination, and local and wide area network support. The role also coordinates internal teams and external providers, follows IT policies and SOX GCC controls, and supports multiple locations through approximately 20% travel, on-call coverage, extended hours, and weekend work.

Manage regional environmental, health, and safety programs across multiple manufacturing facilities. Lead regulatory compliance, audits, incident investigations, risk identification, environmental permitting, emergency planning, safety metrics, policy development, training, and continuous improvement initiatives. Partner with plant leaders and stakeholders to address hazards, implement corrective actions, maintain records, and adapt programs to changing regulations.

Owns the enterprise strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, standardization, and commercialization of colors, coatings, plating, and decorative and protective finishes. Partners cross-functionally with engineering, operations, sourcing, quality, sales, marketing, suppliers, and customers to improve portfolio profitability, quality, consistency, adoption, and operational efficiency. Leads market research, portfolio governance, pricing recommendations, product launches, training, and finish harmonization across product lines and facilities.

Lead all Human Resources functions for Quanex’s Custom Components division across multiple U.S. locations. Partner with executive and plant leadership on talent management, organizational development, employee relations, performance management, leadership development, culture, staffing, retention, training, safety, workers’ compensation, and employment-law compliance. Manage HR staff, strengthen organizational effectiveness, coach leaders, and ensure consistent delivery of HR programs across the division.

Design, program, configure, test, and maintain PLC-based control systems, HMIs, SCADA, robotics, and motion-control equipment. Troubleshoot and provide hands-on support during failures, lead root-cause analysis, improve equipment reliability, throughput, and safety, and maintain electrical drawings, network diagrams, and documentation.

As a Production Associate, you will assemble components, ensure quality standards, maintain cleanliness, and follow safety procedures while working in a team environment.

Lead a design engineering team to drive new product development, tooling and process design, manufacturing optimization, and continuous improvement. Deliver projects on time and within budget while partnering with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Product Management. Develop talent, influence stakeholders, and support strategic initiatives to grow the Bilco brand.

As the Manager of Data Governance, you'll lead enterprise data governance, ensuring data quality and compliance across the organization, while collaborating with stakeholders in Engineering, IT, and Operations.

Leads the global Access Solutions portfolio across North America, EMEA, and APAC, owning product vision, strategy, lifecycle, roadmap, profitability, pricing, compliance, and global launches. Conducts market research and Voice of Customer programs, drives new product development and adoption, and coordinates engineering, sales, marketing, operations, supply chain, and finance. Tracks portfolio KPIs and champions sustainability, continuous improvement, and smart technology integration. Requires extensive product management experience, global leadership, financial expertise, and up to 40% international travel.

The Quality Engineer will develop and maintain quality standards, perform inspections, and lead problem-solving sessions to ensure product acceptability in a manufacturing environment.

Lead energy-focused continuous improvement (kaizen) events across manufacturing sites to reduce operational costs and carbon footprint. Partner with plant leaders to identify, prioritize, and implement energy, waste, and water reduction projects, manage project pipelines and budgets, provide data-driven insights, and scale sustainability best practices across North America and beyond.

Respond to customer and sales rep inquiries by phone/email, prepare and enter quotations and orders for architectural products, establish pricing, coordinate with specifiers and internal departments, research order status/expedites, prepare drawing submittals, maintain records, and provide backup for other inside sales/customer service duties.