OUR STORY
AltGen boasts some 100-odd years of combined experience in HR and capacity development; and is supported by a passionate team spread across the African landscape.
We are proud of the role we have played in Renewable Energy in Africa since 2012, through providing the human resources and knowledge needed for our clients to successfully execute their mandates where our team has played a leading role in providing a range of people-orientated services to businesses, governments, NGOs and educational institutions.
Services range from assisting with utility-scale operations to formulating HR strategies as well as assisting recent graduates to find jobs.
Our entities are located in Nairobi, Kenya, Ebène Cybercity, Mauritius and Cape Town, South Africa. We operate across both francophone and anglophone African countries and we are rapidly extending our services to the global community, with a growing reach into the European market.
AltGen Recruitment was incorporated in South Africa in 1997 and now consists of three complementary divisions which cover the three stages of job creation in the energy space.
The complimentary divisions which effectively feed insights into the services we offer include; Consulting, Recruitment and Employment Services.
1997
AltGen Recruitment is incorporated and initially focused on recruitment in logistics and supply chain.
2012
AltGen focuses on renewable energy providing expert recruitment services to project developers, engineering consultancies, OEMs, suppliers and distributors, and EPCM’s.
2014
AltGen Consulting is established and begins its first project assignment, a Socio-Economic Development Plan for a 75MW PV project on the West Coast of South Africa.
2015
AltGen establishes an entity in Kenya under AltGen LTD.
2015
Due to client demand, AltGen Employment Services (PTY) LTD is incorporated.
2017
We grow the team in East Africa, enabling us to provide supervisory services to the French Development Agency (AFD) on the EUR 15M DFID/EU funded Green Mini-Grids (GMG) Programme, an ongoing engagement.
2018
AltGen creates an entity in Mauritius, AltGen Energy Services LTD, to best serve the international nature of our clients operating throughout Africa.
2020
Remaining agile in an ever-changing digital world we establish a new entity (AltGen Talent Exchange Limited) which develops recruitment tech systems as well as begin to offer corporate coaching management training.
THE MANAGEMENT TEAM
Sean holds a Master of Philosophy from Stellenbosch University as well as an honours degree in Social Science from Rhodes University. He is the Managing Director of AltGen’s group of companies.
Robert holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing Management from UNISA as well as a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering from CPUT. He oversees the success of AltGen Recruitment services ensuring clients’ talent acquisition needs are met.
JP holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering from the University of Limerick. He manages both the recruitment team as well as the Talent Exchange team.
Lindy holds a Bachelors’s Degree in Social Sciences from Rhodes University. Her role in the team encompasses onboarding new clients across AltGen’s service offering.