AMT Placement Services

AMT is a professional people and HR service provider that supplies and manages temporary and permanent recruitment solutions for various industry sectors in South Africa. The company has been operating since 1987, is a fully compliant BEE operation, and is independent and privately owned. It specialises in the supply of both local and international vetted blue collar and white collar individuals, and says it holds one of the largest professional databases in the industry, driven by its wholly owned licensed proprietary system Cycad. That database allows AMT to supply skilled temporary or permanent workers at short notice as well as a full spectrum of employment services. The company states that it has employed more than 50 000 people over the past thirty years, and it is led by a board made up of Alberto Tavares as chief executive, Luis Pires, Cecilia Nkosi and Mala Mungaroo.

Its key industry sectors are petrochemical, energy, mining, metal, paper and pulp, and cement. Around those sectors AMT offers temporary and permanent employment, engagement and mobilisation, a payroll and wage bureau, HR site support, demobilisation, HR consulting and accredited industrial relations training, along with on site services that put HR and IR specialists directly on a client's site. The company points to a database of suitable people for projects and shutdowns, reduced time and cost, project financing, legal compliance and corporate governance as the practical advantages of partnering with it.

AMT runs its head office in Vanderbijlpark with further branches in Cape Town, Gauteng, Lephalale and Secunda. It is APSO, DEL, MEIBC and SABPP accredited and is a member of APSO, CAPES and SEIFSA, sits on the executive committee of the labour broking division of the Constructional Engineering Association, and is an accredited labour broker with SEIFSA. It states that it never charges candidates for inductions, medicals or any other service, and publishes a number for reporting fraud. Its values commit it to employee fairness and protection in the workplace, and it also runs charity projects as part of its social responsibility work.