Peter Tartaglia, senior product engineer at McKEON.
Aside from the traditional responsibilities of an engineer, such as product designing and development, Pete Tartaglia is also responsible for releasing projects into fabrication and processing product parts orders.
Pete began working at McKEON at 19. He started as a draftsperson but transitioned to product engineering shortly thereafter. Pete became well versed in the product costing of projects and design engineering in the preparation of production factory work orders.
“Since I switched over from drafting, I was [now] handling the pricing side,” Pete said. “I would have to take everything I learned from drawing the doors and apply that to pricing out the doors from scratch.”
Pete said he always gravitated to engineering. He took a design and drawing class in high school which caught his attention more than anything else. He learned AutoCAD and would build what he had designed on the computer. The teacher of the course pointed him toward the field.
At McKEON, Pete is constantly moving. Whether he is fielding parts orders from the estimating department, coordinating with shipping and logistics, or discussing design aspects with the rest of the engineering team, Pete is responsible for more than just production engineering design.
“You never know what’s going to happen next,” Pete said. “Multiple departments are involved with my emails so if someone needs a part ‘next-day air,’ I have to stop what I’m doing and handle that first and at the same time, I can get an order [that] needs to be stopped in the [factory].”
A fun fact about Pete is that he can play both the guitar and drums. Pete started playing guitar when he was 11 and drums at 15. An avid music-lover, Pete plays many genres but said he mostly plays what his parents listened to when he was younger – hard rock and heavy metal.
Pete is also a self-proclaimed “movie fanatic” and “die-hard action movie fan.” He said he loves the John Wick films, and his top 3 favorite movies are “Dumb and Dumber”, “The Godfather,” and “Superbad.”