General Manager – Automotive – Manchester – £70k to £80k

General Manager – Automotive – Manchester – £70k to £80k

Location: Manchester (On-site, 5 days per week)

Monday to Thursday: 7:30am to 4:30/5:00pm // Friday: Finish around 3:00pm

Salary: £70k to £80k + Package

Company Overview

An established, engineering-led specialist vehicle conversion business operating across emergency services, defence, and commercial vehicle platforms. The company delivers complex, low-volume, high-specification vehicle programmes and is continuing to grow its engineering and manufacturing capability.

The business operates in a highly regulated environment and places strong emphasis on quality, safety, and technical compliance.

The Role

The General Manager will take full responsibility for the day-to-day leadership and operational management of the Manchester site.

Reporting directly to the Group CEO, this is a hands-on leadership role requiring a strong technical production background combined with commercial awareness and customer-facing capability.

The successful candidate will oversee production operations, manage site personnel, support commercial activities and ensure customer requirements, delivery schedules and operational targets are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all day-to-day site operations
• Oversee production activities to ensure efficiency, quality and delivery performance
• Manage and support operational and production teams
• Drive operational improvements and business performance
• Work closely with customers and maintain strong working relationships
• Support commercial discussions around pricing, quotations and customer requirements
• Coordinate production schedules and resource planning
• Ensure operational targets and delivery deadlines are achieved
• Maintain high standards across health & safety, quality and operational compliance
• Support strategic planning and business growth initiatives alongside senior leadership

About You

• Strong technical production or manufacturing background
• Previous experience in a senior operational or site leadership role
• Commercially aware with strong customer-facing capability
• Experience managing teams within a manufacturing or engineering environment
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
• Able to operate effectively within a fast-paced hands-on environment
• Conversion industry background highly desirable
• Comfortable working fully on-site

What’s on Offer

• Senior leadership position reporting directly to Group CEO
• High level of responsibility and autonomy
• Opportunity to lead and develop a growing operation
• Long-term stability within an established engineering business
• Broad operational and commercial exposure across the business

If this role is of interest, please apply via LinkedIn or email dan.avila@everec.co.uk