I have no idea if this solution would work in Australia/the UK.

First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors- Construction Trades Workers - Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction trades workers and their helpers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work and may also engage in the same construction trades work as the workers they supervise.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=First-Line_Superviso...


Painting foreman
This position would involve managing residential and commercial projects to ensure that they are completed on time and to job specifications, done our way.

Daily painting duties while overseeing crew activity, maintaining relationships with customers, solving small issues on the job site, and pick up of paint and sundries from local paint suppliers.

http://phoenix.backpage.com/TradesJobs/painting_foreman_want...

Commercial management and supervision of construction trades for various projects, in some cases as a subcontractor.

"supervision" will give it a little lower profile than "management"