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We’re looking for a practical, reliable and team-focused Baker to help us develop a new bakery program across the Upper Beaconsfield General Store and our Over the Road venues.

Baking is the primary focus of this role. Barista and café all-rounder experience is not essential, but would be highly valued.

About the role

You’ll help produce a range of fresh bakery and café products, including:

• Rustic white or sourdough loaves

• Croissants and other laminated pastries

• Brioche buns and enriched dough products

• Banana bread and café baked goods

• Seasonal and creative bakery products

Our business already makes pies and sausage rolls in-house. This role will help us build on that foundation by developing consistent, high-quality bread, pastry and café baking across our locations.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Preparing, shaping, proving and baking products

• Working with smaller kitchens and a variety of equipment

• Adjusting recipes, batch sizes and production methods as required

• Planning production so products are fresh and available when needed

• Maintaining consistent quality and presentation

• Helping develop recipes, systems and production processes

• Keeping the bakery area clean, organised and food-safe

• Completing normal cleaning and dishes as part of each shift

• Supporting the wider café team when required

• Working across Upper Beaconsfield, Emerald and Gembrook when needed

About you

You may be a qualified baker, pastry cook, experienced bakery assistant or a café all-rounder with strong practical baking skills.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has practical commercial baking experience

• Can work confidently and consistently without needing a large production bakery

• Is flexible, creative and enjoys solving problems

• Is comfortable working in a small team alongside younger and developing staff

• Is approachable, friendly and comfortable speaking with customers

• Has a positive, hands-on and team-first attitude

• Is reliable, organised and willing to help wherever needed

• Takes pride in cleanliness, food safety and presentation

• Is happy to contribute to the whole business, not just one part of the kitchen

Barista and café experience

Barista skills are not essential, but they would be highly regarded. The ideal candidate may also be comfortable helping with coffee, breakfast, toasties, customer service or general café work when required.

The opportunity

This is an opportunity to help develop a fledgling bakery area within a growing local family business.

We can offer:

• Full-time or part-time employment

• Flexible hours and start times

• Early starts available, but not essential

• Work based primarily at Upper Beaconsfield

• Opportunities to work across different locations in the business

• Variety rather than the same production routine every day

• The opportunity to help shape products, systems and the bakery offering

• Award rates apply

• A friendly, practical team environment

The role may suit someone looking for a traditional bakery position with more flexibility, variety and connection with customers.

To apply

Please use the application form below and select “Baker – Full-Time or Part-Time” in the role field.

Tell us about your baking and commercial kitchen experience, the products you can confidently produce, any barista or café all-rounder experience, and your preferred hours and availability.

A résumé is helpful, and photos or examples of your work are welcome, but are not essential.

One full-time job. Three venues. Plenty of variety.

We’re looking for an experienced Barista & Cafe All-Rounder to join our growing hospitality group across Emerald, Upper Beaconsfield and Gembrook.

This is a genuine full-time role with regular, dependable hours, variety across our venues and real opportunity to develop into a leadership position as the business grows.

We’re not looking for someone who only wants to stand behind a coffee machine. We want one of those genuinely capable hospitality people who can make great coffee, look after customers, jump onto the floor and step into the kitchen when the team needs help.

About the role

Your role will include:

• Confidently running a busy commercial coffee machine

• Producing consistently great coffee at pace

• Front-of-house customer service

• Taking orders, running food and keeping service moving

• Jumping into the kitchen when required

• Preparing breakfasts, toasties and straightforward cafe meals

• Opening and/or closing venues depending on experience

• Keeping the venue clean, organised and ready for service

• Supporting the wider team wherever needed

• Working across our Emerald, Upper Beaconsfield and Gembrook locations as part of a regular roster

You’ll have structure and dependable hours, but you won’t necessarily be doing exactly the same thing in exactly the same venue every day.

About you

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong commercial barista experience

• Confidence working independently on the coffee machine during busy service

• Good general cafe and hospitality experience

• The ability to prepare breakfasts, toasties and similar cafe food

• Strong customer service skills

• A practical, hands-on attitude

• The ability to see what needs doing and get on with it

• Reliability and good availability

• A genuine team-first attitude

You don’t need to be a qualified chef. You do need to be the sort of person who sees the kitchen getting busy while coffee is quiet and automatically jumps in to help.

Leadership & career development

For the right person, there is genuine opportunity for this role to develop into a supervisor or leadership position.

Experience opening or closing venues, running shifts, training team members or giving direction would be highly regarded.

You don’t need previous management experience. If you’re a strong hospitality operator who wants to develop into leadership, we can provide that opportunity.

Our business is continuing to grow across the Hills and we want good people who can grow with us.

Why work with us?

We’re an independent, locally owned hospitality and retail group with businesses across the Hills.

Our group includes the historic Upper Beaconsfield General Store and our Over the Road hospitality venues in Upper Beaconsfield, Emerald and Gembrook.

We can offer:

• Genuine full-time employment

• Regular and dependable hours

• Variety across three Hills venues

• A mix of coffee, customer service, food and cafe operations

• Career development as the business grows

• Genuine leadership opportunities for the right person

• An established team and strong local customer base

• A dynamic business that continues to grow and try new things

• Hills locations without the CBD commute

• The opportunity to become an important part of a growing local business

We’re big enough to offer stability, variety and opportunity, but still small enough that you’ll know the owners, managers, your team and plenty of our regular customers.

If you can make great coffee, jump into a kitchen, look after customers and help a team get the job done, we’d like to meet you.

To apply, use the application form below and tell us about your barista and hospitality experience, current availability and any previous experience opening, closing or leading a shift.

The General Store & Over the Road — Emerald • Upper Beaconsfield • Gembrook — Supplying the Hills Since 1885

We’re looking for an experienced casual barista to join our hospitality team for 2–3 shifts per week across Upper Beaconsfield, Emerald and Gembrook.

This is not a trainee barista role. We’re looking for someone who can step onto the machine, work independently and maintain quality, speed and consistency through busy service.

To be suitable for this role, you must:

• Have a minimum of 2 years’ recent hands-on commercial barista experience in a busy café

• Be confident dialling in grinders and monitoring espresso quality throughout the day

• Have strong milk texturing skills and produce consistently well-presented coffee

• Work calmly and efficiently under pressure

• Be reliable, friendly and team-focused

• Be available for at least one weekend day

• Be comfortable working across our café locations in Upper Beaconsfield, Emerald and Gembrook

• Be happy to assist with normal front-of-house and café tasks when required

Supervisor opportunity

For candidates with previous supervisory or senior café experience, there may also be opportunities to work supervisor shifts. This would suit someone who has experience opening or closing a venue, directing a small team, managing service flow, handling customer issues and maintaining standards during a shift.

Supervisor responsibilities only apply to team members formally appointed to that level. The role is also open to experienced baristas who are not seeking supervisory responsibilities.

The role is casual, with 2–3 shifts per week. You’ll work alongside a capable hospitality team in a growing local family business with loyal regular customers.

To apply, use the application form below and tell us about your barista experience, current availability and, if relevant, any experience opening or closing a venue or leading a team during service.