Jim Orourke
Manufacturing Quality Professional
- Role
- Senior Quality Engineer at Mactac North America
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jim Orourke
A senior business professional with leadership experience in Automotive, Aerospace, Medical, Military, Paper, and Consumer Goods industries. History of success working in design, manufacturing, laboratory, and quality support functions. Strategic and solutions-driven, adept in maintaining an agile and adaptable work approach. Committed to creating a culture of excellence, quality, service, and profitability. Passionate about assisting individuals, leaders, and teams to meet and surpass their goals. Driven by a sense of urgency, ownership, and personal accountability dedicated to personal and professional growth.“Pray and work.”* “Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you.”* Even when we have done our work, the food we receive is still a gift from our Father; it is good to ask him for it and to thank him, as Christian families do when saying grace at meals- Our Father, 2834KEY SKILLSCummins Certified MBB | LEAN – Kaizen Expertise – Value Stream |6S/PPS Problem Solving Trainer/Certified Expert | Business System Development | Team Leadership | Direct OEM/EBU Customer Contacts Exposure | Coaching / Employee Development | Supplier Development | Change Management (End to End)| ISO Quality Management System Leadership | CQMS (Cummins Quality Mgt. Sys) Training and Usage | Supplier APQP/PPAP/PSO ExperienceKEY TECHNICAL SKILLSDOE | Minitab | DFMEA | PFMEA APQP | DVPR | PSO | PPAP | Poke-Yoke | DMAIC | Kaizen | 5S | VSM | HALT | DFA | DFM | Global 8D | Gage R&R/MSA | QA Trax | Windchill | JMP | Power BI | Integrity
Experience
Senior Quality Engineer
Jul 2024 — Present · Columbus, IN, US
Customer Quality - Responsible for customer response to Corrective Action and Preventive Action Requests on time. Improved the response metric by 50% in 2024 and remain 100% on time to customer response date through Q2, late in Q3 2025. Every customer receives a response to their Corrective Action Requests. Supplier Quality - Determination of defect responsibility, disposition, supplier contact, and resolution of raw material issues. Assuming the duties in Q4 2024, by end of Q1 2025, supplier (responsibility) recovery was significantly improved (200% Q4 to Q1. Initiating Supplier Corrective Action Request for full resolution. Duties also include freight claims, material repair, and safely returning chemical products. Floor support including leading Quality Technicians in completion of lab verification testing and completion of disposition. Primary metric is fully executed disposition for our Master products within 30 days maximum. Q2 2025 were on 100% on time and averaged 50% lower in hold dollars than metric. Statistical support of key projects for the plant. Capability, SPC, Time Variation Analysis, Graphic Data summaries, Comparative (before and after) Analysis for newly installed equipment. ISO9001 Auditing and Documentation Support. Overseeing release and revision of documentation from Operations and Quality. Fully recertified as a facility in April 2025. Automated Gage Calibration system, manage internal and external calibration. Also, manage lab supplies including critical consumable and shelf-life dependent testing supplies.
Education
The College of New Jersey
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering
1985 — 1990
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