Barista/Quality Controller

We're on the hunt for a full time enthusiastic, skilled, professional barista/quality controller to stamp their expertise on our L'affare Auckland café and roastery.

We’re an odd lot but passionate about coffee and food and we're after people that are similar. You will be working in a small team, so you must be a team player!

You'll work around 40 hours per week on a Tuesday to Sunday roster, daytime hours.

Duties:

• Ensure that customers receive efficient and courteous service at all times
• High standard of personal presentation
• Constantly maintain excellent coffee making standards within the cafe
• Conduct coffee standards checks on a regular basis
• Monitor coffee machine performance and execute machine maintenance and adjustments as required to ensure a high standard
• Ensure the barista area is kept clean and tid
• Provide training, coaching and performance feedback to maximise service and quality standard
• To assist the Cafe Manager in achieving targets for service, quality, and profitability

Requirements

We are looking for someone that has:

• strong understanding of specialty coffee
• experience in cupping and blend development
• extraction and yield, soft brew methods and brew temperature
• coffee making
• delivering high service and quality in a busy cafe environment
• basic machine maintenance
• ability to train using a variety of techniques
• competant with latte art
• experience with L'affare coffee would be an advantage
• experience with coffee roasting would be an advantage

A Duty Manager's certificate would be desirable.

Benefits