Ken Altreuter, CPC Managing Director

Ken Altreuter has had an extensive corporate & search career along with a BA in Economics & an MBA. Ken worked for the Singer Co. for 18 years. Starting as an Industrial Engineer in its Elizabeth Plant, he progressed through management positions in plant operations, distribution/product service to Director of the world wide Product Planning Department. Ken then moved to the Pepsi Cola Company as National Service Manager in its Corporate Headquarters in Purchase, NY.

In 1985, Ken began recruiting by starting The ALTCO Group. The ALTCO Group serves 4 industries (Food, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Personal Products) and focuses on technical & operations positions. The largest portions of search activity are centered around engineering, product development & plant operations positions. Searches are generally from the VP level to professionals with 5 years of experience.

Ken has been on the Board of Directors & Vice President of The New Jersey Staffing Association. He is a member of the Institute of Packaging Professionals, American Society for Quality Control, & NJ Business & Industry Association. Ken has written articles for various business & professional magazines on how to work with recruiters from both a candidate & employer standpoint. He has also been frequently quoted by Dow Jones' National Employment Weekly on employment issues & trends. He is also active with 2 non-profit organizations in the development & continuing content of their web sites. Ken's military service was with the A.S.A.

Ken Altreuter retired in December of 2005. This page includes the team from The ALTCO Group, that for 15 years was located in the Menlo Park Office Building in Edison, N.J.

John Shea, CPC Sr. Personnel Consultant

Short Biography

John has over 10 years of executive search experience with The ALTCO Group and is a Certified Personnel Consultant. He primarily works with consumer products manufacturing companies, whose products are found in food or drug stores. His main focus is finding engineering and operations support people for client companies, filling positions ranging from those requiring 2-5 years of experience to Directors of Engineering or Operations.

After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in Industrial & Labor relations, John served as an Officer in the US Army, including a tour as a pilot in the Republic of South Vietnam. John joined industry in Personnel, at the plant and corporate levels, holding various positions, including Personnel Manager. He worked for several leading consumer products and office supply manufacturer, switching from Personnel to Manufacturing management. John served as a Plant Manager, responsible for 95 hourly employees and had full budgetary responsibility for $3MM in direct expenses. He also served as Director of Manufacturing for up to 150 unionized hourly employees and over $7MM in direct expenses.

Ingo Petersen Recruiter

Short Biography

Ingo spent the major portion of his career in Human Resources for Profit and non-profit Corporations. He began his career in College Recruiting while completing his BS in Personnel Management at New York University. His career progressed from Personnel Assistant to Personnel Manager and then Vice President of Human Resources for corporations like Diamond Power Specialty Corp, Beechnut-Lifesavers Inc, Allied Chemical, Sandoz Pharmaceutical and Raritan Bay Medical Specialty Corp. During this period he took graduate level courses in Economics at Ohio State University. Later at New School for Social Research in New York City. He has recruited, screened, interviewed and hired hundreds of applicants from machine operators to Vice Presidents.

Ingo is the newest addition to The ALTCO Group and has spent the past 5 years concentrating on the recruitment of superior professional candidates anxious to secure challenging job assignments. He estimates he devotes 90% of his time advancing the career aspirations of Packaging Engineers with our clients & associate specialist recruiters in all industries.

This photo includes Arlene Fraser, Rose Altreuter, and Jacki Nitti who were the fantastic team from ALTCO Staffing Services. Linda Christiansen was our hard working administrative support person.

Additional Support:

We leverage the above experienced recruiting capability through the use of:

• Our vast database and continual recruitment of closely related professionals for candidate identification and as sources for obtaining targeted, high quality recommendations
• A well established network of contacts that allows for several specialist recruiters to be focused on your requirements.
• For select projects, independent researchers are engaged to do preliminary sourcing for referral recruiting, bench-marking, independent referencing, and special studies
• An internet presence that attracts superior candidates at different points in their careers (we know who to go back to and for what career/personal reasons)
• Prior specialized searches that provide an excellent starting point for Candidate Sourcing through analysis of in depth interviews, and from previous primary/secondary reference checking