Tom Hughes

Head of Talent Acquisition for Mace across North America & LATAM covering United States, Canada, Peru, Colombia, Mexico & Puerto Rico. From the East to the West coasts of North America, down south to Latin America, Mace continues to push the boundaries of project and programme delivery as global experts in shaping the built environment - helping to lead the way to a more connected, resilient and sustainable world. Do what you love at Mace. Whatever your aspiration, we’ll help you redefine the boundaries of your ambitions. Email: Tom.Hughes@macegroup.com

Supporting Mace’s growing portfolio of Infrastructure Delivery Partner Programmes across North America including New York’s Gateway Programme (Hudson Tunnel Project), Metrolinx's GO Expansion, Scarborough and Yonge North Subways Extension Projects in Toronto, ALTO High Speed from Toronto to Quebec City and incredibly important Programmes in Latin America with significant Social Value such as the UK Delivery Teams Government to Government agreement with the National Infrastructure Authority of Peru to support the reconstruction, construction and enhancement of infrastructure following severe damage caused by climate cycle El Nino Costero.

Lead Recruiter for Mace Construct Private Sector & Specialist Services. Including Major Projects, Commercial Offices, Mace MEP Services, Mace Facades and Mace Logistics. For over 30 years Mace’s Construct business has been delivering some of the most complex and challenging major construction projects in the UK – including some of the most iconic structures ever built. We’ve created landmark London buildings, like The London Eye, The Shard, Battersea Power Station and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as well as building cutting-edge research facilities and world-class residential and commercial projects. Do what you love at Mace. Whatever your aspiration, we’ll help you redefine the boundaries of your ambitions.

C1 Align HS2 - The Joint Venture between Bouygues TP, Sir Robert McAlpine & VolkerFitzpatrick working on behalf of HS2 to deliver C1, a £2.5bn NEC3 Civils package including the 16km twin bored Chiltern Tunnels, the 3.5km Colne Valley Viaduct & 5 ventilation and access shafts. Having been awarded the C1 Align HS2 Main Works contract, took headcount from 80 to 550 in 2.5 years with a team of 3. I delivered 220/470 of these hires personally without a single agency fee and as a team we delivered 180 permanent hires in 2020 and 227 in 2021 during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Currie & Brown is one of the world’s leading physical assets management consultancies. I was responsible for the recruitment of Planning, Project, Cost & Survey Managers from Professional to Director level across EMEA.

On-Site Recruitment Specialist at Lendlease via IBM TAO RPO covering Major Projects. • 146 Permanent Hires in FY18/19 with only 4.6% agency usage • Increased female hires within construction from 31% in 2017 to 46% in 2018

Specialist in the recruitment of both contract and permanent staff within the Civils, Construction, Rail, Nuclear and Mining sectors for NEC projects in the UK. Project Controls Specialism: Commercial, Planners, Estimators, Cost Engineers and Procurement Consultants.

Senior Technical Recruitment Specialist - Looking after Senior Technical Appointments for clients across Civils, Rail, Construction and Aviation in the UK and MENA working on both Permanent and Contract.

Team 247 was an out of hours recruitment team aimed at supporting the Labour side of the business. The main aim was to build a team of staff who would look to reactively replace contractors in real time, outside of office hours and to take new labour orders from clients in the evenings or on weekends.