Director General Manager

About the role

This is a career-defining opportunity to lead a well-established business at an exciting stage of growth.

As Director General Manager of Painter Brothers, you'll have full responsibility for business performance, shaping strategy, driving operational excellence and leading a specialist manufacturing operation with a strong market reputation.

Combining commercial expertise with strong operational leadership, you'll grow market share, secure new business and deliver outstanding results across sales, manufacturing and project delivery. Leading a multi-disciplinary team, you'll set the direction, culture and pace required to achieve ambitious growth and profitability targets.

This is a high-impact role with genuine autonomy and accountability, offering the opportunity to run your own P&L, influence every aspect of the business and play a key role in its future success.

The role will be based in Hereford, where the manufacturing operations are based.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the overall strategy, performance and profitability of Painter Brothers, with full P&L accountability.


• Drive business growth through winning new orders, expanding market share and strengthening customer relationships.


• Oversee all manufacturing, fabrication and project delivery activities to ensure safe, efficient and high-quality performance.


• Deliver annual revenue, margin and profit targets through effective business planning and execution.


• Champion a culture of health, safety, wellbeing and sustainability across the business.


• Lead and develop a high-performing leadership team, creating clear goals and accountability.


• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity, reduce costs and optimise operational performance.


• Oversee production planning, resource management, inventory control and capital investment activities.


• Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers and key stakeholders to support long-term growth.


• Provide clear performance reporting and strategic insight to support business decision-making.

Who we're looking for

• A proven business leader with the ability to shape strategy, drive performance and deliver sustainable growth.


• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience managing profitability, budgets and business performance.


• A collaborative and influential leader with a track record of building high-performing teams and leading cultural transformation.


• Experience driving operational excellence and performance improvement through clear objectives, KPIs and continuous improvement initiatives.


• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with customers, suppliers and senior leaders.


• Experience operating within manufacturing, engineering, construction, infrastructure or other complex operational environments.


• An understanding of manufacturing, production, project delivery or supply chain operations; knowledge of ERP/MRP systems and lean methodologies would be advantageous.


• Resilient, adaptable and action-oriented, with strong decision-making, problem-solving and communication skills.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK's rail networks - designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We're making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we've got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We're looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com