We're ready to Brand. Now we need someone who respects every cup.

Our brand-new beachfront café on iconic Hedges Avenue is about to open its doors, and we're looking for an Experienced Barista with serious coffee skills to be part of it from day one. If you're proud of every cup you pour and want to help build a café that locals and visitors come back to every day, we'd love to hear from you.

About Us

Mermaid Beach Surf Club is home to the award-winning Merlina's Restaurant, a vibrant bar, 24 gaming machines, and TAB and Keno facilities. Our new café sits right on the beach and will trade 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

The Role

You’ll be behind the machine during busy café service, making sure every coffee is right. You'll:

- Handle high-volume service, without letting quality slip
- Hit our quality markers on every shot, from dose and yield to extraction time, milk temperature and texture, so the first coffee of the day matches the five-hundredth
- Dial in each morning and adjust through the day to keep extraction on point
- Texture milk and pour latte art to a high standard
- Clean, maintain and look after the espresso machine and grinders
- Deliver friendly, efficient service and help keep the café clean, stocked and running smoothly
- Help shape the new café's coffee offering as it finds its feet

About You

You treat coffee as a craft, not a task. You respect the cup.



The roaster who developed it, and the customer who's trusting you with their morning. That means no shortcuts, no "near enough," and never sending out a coffee you wouldn't drink yourself. You can taste when a shot is off and know how to fix it. You stay calm when the line is out the door, you take pride in your work, and you know that having fun as a team is just as key as delivering exceptional service.

What You'll Bring

- Minimum 2 years' barista experience in a high-volume café.
- Proven ability to work to set recipes and quality markers (dose, yield, time and temperature) and keep every cup consistent across a full shift
- Deep coffee knowledge: espresso extraction, dialling in, brewing methods, milk texturing and latte art
- Confidence handling and maintaining commercial espresso machines and grinders
- Current RSA and RSG [We also have the Club upstairs]
- Availability for early mornings and weekends on a rotating roster
- Excellent presentation, communication and plenty of common sense
- An understanding that the customer is the star of the show. Our job is to make them shine.

What We Offer

- The chance to be part of a new beachfront venue from opening day,
- Stability with an established, community-focused club
- A supportive team culture that is second to none

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