Director, Quality Management Systems

Apogee Architectural Metals Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: APOG), founded in 1949 and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN designs and delivers architectural products and services that enclose and enhance commercial buildings.   www.apog.com Apogee Architectural Metals is a segment of Apogee specializing in aluminum framing, windows, storefront, curtainwall, and entrance systems. We provide integrated capabilities, including design, engineering, extrusion, finishing, fabrication and assembly, across North America. Through our brands including Alumicor, EFCO, Linetec, Tubelite, and Wausau, we deliver quality, consistency, and value-added services throughout our portfolio. Position Summary The Director, Quality is a senior quality leader accountable for transforming quality performance, capability, and culture across the business. Reporting to the VP, Operations, this leader will set the quality agenda, lead the Quality organization, and establish the operating discipline, systems, and leadership routines required to deliver consistent customer and operational outcomes. This role requires a proven quality leader who can move beyond compliance to build a scalable quality operating model, elevate accountability across sites, and influence leaders at all levels to adopt new standards, behaviors, and ways of working. Key Responsibilities Set and execute the quality strategy, operating model, governance routines, and performance expectations needed to improve quality outcomes across sites Lead, coach, and develop Quality Managers and site quality teams to strengthen capability, accountability, decision-making, and execution discipline Build a scalable quality operating system that integrates QMS standards, metrics, technology, problem solving, and leadership routines into daily operations Use customer feedback, quality data, audit findings, and operational trends to identify systemic issues, prioritize action, and eliminate recurring failure modes Partner with the VP, Operations, site leaders, and functional leaders to align quality priorities with operational performance, customer commitments, and business objectives Lead significant customer, product, process, or operational quality issues with clear escalation, root-cause discipline, corrective action, and organizational learning Lead quality transformation initiatives that reduce variation, improve process capability, strengthen operating discipline, and deliver measurable customer and business impact Influence leaders across operations, engineering, supply chain, commercial, and functional teams to remove barriers and adopt new standards, behaviors, and ways of working Report quality performance, transformation progress, risks, recommendations, and business impact to the VP, Operations and senior leadership Develop and maintain enterprise-wide Quality Management Systems (QMS), ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory, industry, customer, and company standards.   Lead…