FOH Opening Team (Multiple Roles) - Aqua

Assistant Managers · Supervisors · Sommeliers · Section Wait Staff | Full time & Casual | Aqua, Milsons Point | Reopening November 2026

FOUR REASONS TO APPLY RIGHT NOW

1. You start earning immediately - Trial this week, contract within 48 hours, placed at one of our venues straight away. You are paid and trained across our existing restaurants before Aqua's doors open.

2. Section waiters become Operations Managers here. Section Wait Staff → Supervisor → Assistant Restaurant Manager → Restaurant Manager → Operations Manager. Every one of those seats is filled right now by someone who started further down it.

3. Fifteen venues heading to twenty. This reopening pulls people up across the whole group, which means seats open everywhere behind them — and the people already inside SRG are first in line.

4. You will open a Sydney landmark. Not join one. Open one. That stays on your CV forever.

WE ARE HIRING

Leadership — full-time, salaried Assistant Restaurant Manager · Supervisor Salary discussed openly at first interview

Floor — Section Wait Staff Senior waiters who can run a section in a premium room HIGA award rates + casual loading + penalties + 12% super

THE ROLES

Assistant Restaurant Manager. Second in command on the floor. You run service when the Restaurant Manager is off, own the roster and the labour line, lead pre-shift, and set the opening team's standards alongside the Restaurant Manager. The last seat before your own room.

Supervisor. You run the floor in real time — calling the room, closing loops with the kitchen, reading the table that needs more, and coaching the section waiters beside you through every service.

Section Wait Staff. You own a section of Sydney's most celebrated dining room from first greeting to farewell. Menu, wine and timing knowledge that lets you read a table and give it exactly what it came for.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Section Wait Staff

1. Phone screen - a short call to talk through your experience,



availability and the role that fits you best
2. Trial - a shift at one of our venues, real service, real floor
3. Contract offered - on the spot or within 48 hours
4. Placed at venue - you start earning and training immediately

Supervisors and Assistant Restaurant Managers

1. Phone screen - a short call to talk through your experience, availability and the role that fits you best
2. Virtual Interview - with the people you would actually report to
3. Trial - a shift on the floor; leadership here is demonstrated, not described
4. Contract offered - full-time salaried
5. Placed at venue - embedded in an operating venue to learn our systems before opening

WHY THE TRAINING RAMP MATTERS

Most openings hire a month out and open with a team that has never worked together.

We are not doing that. Every Aqua hire trains inside a live SRG venue first - Ripples, Sails, The Nielsen, Ventuno, The Fenwick, Riva. You will learn SevenRooms, our service sequence and our standards, and you will already know the people beside you.

By opening week this will not be a new team. It will be a trained team walking into a new room.

WHO WE WANT

On the floor: section waiters who know the difference between service and hospitality. You have run a section in a premium or high-volume quality room, you know your wine and your menu cold, and you read a table before it asks.

In leadership: people who have run a floor, held a standard, developed a team, and understand that labour cost and guest experience are the same conversation.

Everyone: Heart. Ownership. Craft. Together. We prepare with intention, keep the team in the loop,



and act for the guest without waiting. That is how we work.

THE LOCATION

Milsons Point. Harbour Bridge on one shoulder, Luna Park on the other, Opera House across the water, floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides.

There are maybe five dining rooms in this city with a view like this, and none of them are building an entire floor team from scratch.

Aqua is the address people book when the occasion actually matters — the proposal, the anniversary, the deal. That means the guests are invested, the standard is high, and the service you learn here is the service that opens doors everywhere else. "Aqua Dining, opening team" is a line on your CV that Sydney operators recognise instantly.

WHERE HOSPITALITY LEAVES ITS MARK

That is SRG's line, and it is meant both ways — the mark we leave on guests, and the one this group leaves on the people who work in it.

Bill and Kathleen Drakopoulos opened Aqua in 2000. Everything else came after. Twenty-six years on, SRG is fifteen venues heading to twenty — Sydney's harbourside icons and neighbourhood favourites: Ripples, Sails, The Nielsen, The Fenwick, Ventuno, Riva, Akti, Noi, Summer Salt, and the food and beverage across The Langham, Sydney.

What that means for your career:

- Somewhere to go. Fifteen venues, forty-plus event spaces, and five more restaurants on the way. Internal moves are normal here, not a favour.
- Real training, not a handbook. The SRG Wine Academy develops floor teams properly — product knowledge that makes you better paid and more employable for the rest of your career.
- Still family-run. Led by Bill and Kathleen's four children. The people deciding where you go next know your name.

APPLY

Send your CV via this portal and tell us which role you are applying for.

Applicants must have full working rights in Australia.

SRG Hospitality is an equal chance employer.

The venue SRG was built on reopens in November. Come and open it.

📌 Assistant Managers · Supervisors · Sommeliers · Section Wait Staff | FT & Casual (Milsons Point)
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