Services Provided

At Redheads Engineering, we provide comprehensive project management services across the energy sector, supporting both maintenance and construction projects. From initial planning and budgeting through to execution, commissioning, and close-out, we ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, and within budget.

Ensuring the successful completion of a project is challenging in any industry — and even more so in the African context, where logistics, infrastructure, and regulatory hurdles can add complexity to even the simplest projects. Through years of experience, we have developed a deep understanding of this environment, the challenges it presents, and how to navigate them efficiently to ensure successful completion. This is achieved through our realistic planning, detailed risk management, and our close involvement throughout the life cycle of the project.

Our project managers are practical, hands-on, and focused on outcomes. We don’t just track schedules and budgets — we actively drive progress, resolve issues on site, and keep all stakeholders aligned. Contact us to find out how we can support your project management needs, including:

• Maintenance of rotating equipment, including pumps, turbines, generators, and motors
• Maintenance of power generation assets, including solar fields (CSP), boilers, gearboxes, and valves
• New installations and erection of power generation equipment
• Construction of power plants, including wind, PV (solar), BESS, CSP, hydro, and conventional power facilities

Whether you need full project management or targeted support on a critical phase, we help keep your project moving and your objectives on track.

Complex systems require precise design and predictive modelling to avoid costly failures. Redheads delivers custom engineering design and advanced mathematical modelling for power generation, mechanical, and process applications. We use validated tools and real-world experience for feasible outcomes. All our design services are overseen by registered professional engineers to ensure quality.  Our services include:

• Bespoke designs for first-of-kind systems
• Multi-discipline design packages (electrical, mechanical, civil)
• Thermodynamic system design and validation models
• Small- and large-scale structural designs
• Pump and material handling process designs
• Technical documentation and verification to achieve robust designs and that perform in operation
• Dynamic simulations and finite element analysis

• Feasibility studies
• Financial modelling for power plants

Redheads provides engineering simulations to support design decisions, verify performance, and reduce technical risk — especially on industrial equipment and plant-related applications.

We use simulation where it adds real value: to test concepts before fabrication, understand failure mechanisms, and optimise designs during full 3D design development. The focus is on practical insight, not academic theory.

Our simulation capabilities include:

• Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Bespoke numerical and engineering calculations
• Heat transfer and thermal simulations
• Water and steam hammer analysis
• Heat balance and thermodynamic cycle simulations
• Piping and internal flow simulations

These tools allow us to support design validation, troubleshooting, life extension studies, and performance improvements — often saving time and cost by identifying issues early.

Finding and retaining the right technical skills is a constant challenge, especially in engineering environments industries where project demands change quickly and capacity requirements fluctuate.

Redheads offers solutions to clients in sourcing, placing, and managing technical talent and can provide scare engineering capacities even on a flexible basis.

We offer two primary models, depending on client needs:

Secondment / Contract Staffing
We make engineers and technical professionals in our employ available to clients on a temporary, contract basis. This allows clients to scale engineering capacity up or down without long-term commitment. Our staff remain employees of Redheads, while clients pay an agreed hourly rate based on skills and experience.

Contracts can be adjusted or cancelled with short notice. This is a powerful solution for companies as it gives clients access to engineering resources with high flexibility. Fixed manpower costs become variable costs, and your HR administration and HR complexities are significantly reduced. Additionally, temporary secondments may lead to permanent employment, effectively serving as a “working interview.”

Since Redheads generally employs contract staff on a permanent basis, we attract top candidates, invest in our employees with a long-term view, and provide clients with confidence that the staff will remain available until the project is finished.

Recruitment
Where our clients wish to fill positions directly within their organisation, we can assist by sourcing suitable candidates. Since we are an engineering company, we have an innate understanding of the requirements and can for example successfully place engineers, technologists, technicians, CAD designer and IT professionals. We handle the sourcing, screening, and vetting process to reduce hiring risk and shorten lead times.

As an engineering company, we understand the requirements. We can place engineers, technologists, technicians, CAD designers, and IT professionals. We also handle sourcing, screening, and vetting to lower hiring risk and speed up recruitment.

Leveraging our comprehensive database, broad network within the engineering sector, and the international presence of the Redheads Group, we source candidates from an extensive range of channels.

Being engineers ourselves, we understand our engineering clients’ recruitment needs.

Training

Redheads offer various specialist technical and safety training. Such training is offered in-house, at clients’ premises and online.

Typical roles we support include:

• Engineers
• Technologists
• Technicians
• CAD Designers
• Project Managers
• Site supervision personnel
• Safety staff
• IT and technical support professionals