Restaurant Supervisor / Assistant Manager

The Basin Dining Room; Mona Vale; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-time position

Work across two restaurants

Competitive salary

Super + tips

Potential sponsorship for the right候

Job summary

The Basin Dining Room in Mona Vale is seeking an experienced Restaurant Supervisor / Assistant Manager to lead our front-of-house team. You’ll run busy services, coordinate with chefs and manage guest expectations across two venues, bringing your own ideas to elevate the experience.

We offer a full-time position with sponsorship possible for the right candidate, and a chance to grow with two distinct Northern Beaches restaurants. You’ll lead with personality and professional service.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a supervisory or management role in a restaurant.
• Ability to lead a team, train staff and maintain high service standards.
• Confident communicating with guests and coordinating with kitchen staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the front-of-house team across two restaurants.
• Brief staff, manage bookings and guest expectations, and ensure smooth service.
• Collaborate with chefs to maintain high quality food and service.
• Bring personal ideas to improve service and operations.

Skills

Restaurant leadership

FOH management

Staff training

Guest service

Food & wine knowledge

Tools

POS systems

Job description

The Basin Dining Room & The Clareville – Sydney Northern Beaches
Full Time | Sponsorship possible for the right candidate

We’re looking for an experienced Restaurant Supervisor / Assistant Manager to join our small independent restaurant group on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

This isn’t just a role for someone to supervise a section and follow instructions. We’re looking for someone with genuine restaurant experience who can help lead the team, bring their own ideas and personality to the floor, and be trusted to run a restaurant service themselves.

The role will have the opportunity to work across two very different restaurants – The Basin Dining Room in Mona Vale and The Clareville in Clareville.

The Basin Dining Room – Mona Vale

The Basin sits right on Mona Vale Beach and is a busy, established restaurant trading lunch and dinner seven days.

It’s relaxed and coastal, but we take the food, wine and service seriously. It can get very busy, particularly over weekends and summer, so you need to be comfortable leading a team when there’s plenty happening.

Our kitchen is led by Head Chef Gabby Bombara, formerly of Oncore by Clare Smyth.

Gabby’s food is seasonal, produce-driven and approachable. The aim is great restaurant food that suits the beachside setting without becoming overly formal.

For the FOH team, Basin is about combining professional service with personality – looking after regulars, keeping standards high and making a busy restaurant feel relaxed and effortless.

The Clareville – Clareville Beach

The Clareville is smaller and more intimate, with a more refined style of dining.

The kitchen is led by Chef/Owner Cooper Dickson, who spent close to 20 years working in some of Australia’s leading luxury lodges, including Capella Lodge, Southern Ocean Lodge and Longitude 131.

Cooper’s food is produce-focused and refined, with a strong emphasis on seafood, native and local ingredients and sustainability.

The service is warm and relaxed rather than stiff or overly formal, but attention to detail is important.

The Role

We want someone who can become an important part of the leadership team across the restaurants.

You’ll be involved in running services, leading and developing the FOH team, briefing staff, working closely with the chefs, managing bookings and guest expectations, and making sure the restaurants run properly whether the owners are there or not.

Importantly, we want you to bring your own spin on things.

If you’ve spent years working in good restaurants, we want to learn from that experience too. We don’t expect you to simply arrive and do everything exactly the way we’ve always done it.

Bring ideas. Help improve the service. Help develop the younger staff. If you see a better way of doing something, speak up.

We want someone who takes ownership and genuinely helps us make both restaurants better.

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Restaurant Supervisor, Assistant Manager or similar leadership role

• Confident independently running a busy restaurant service

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to train, motivate and develop a FOH team

• Excellent food, wine and service knowledge

• Warm and natural with guests – professional without being robotic or overly formal

• Someone who can bring their own ideas and personality to the restaurants

• Comfortable working closely with the chefs and building a strong relationship between FOH and BOH

• Someone who notices what could be done better and actually does something about it

• A genuine interest in restaurants, food and hospitality

You must currently be living in Australia. We are not considering offshore applicants for this position.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship may be possible for the right candidate.

To be considered for sponsorship, you must already be in Australia and have at least 3 years’ genuine experience in a restaurant supervisory or management role.

We’re looking for someone experienced enough to take real responsibility for a restaurant, help lead the team and bring their own experience and ideas to the business.

Sponsorship isn’t automatic and will depend on experience, eligibility and whether we’re both confident it’s the right long-term fit.

What We Offer

• Full-time position

• Opportunity to work across two very different Northern Beaches restaurants

• Work alongside Gabby Bombara and Cooper Dickson and experience two very different approaches to food

• Genuine input into how the restaurants operate

• A leadership role where your ideas and experience are valued

• Competitive salary based on experience

• Super + tips

• Potential sponsorship for the right experienced candidate

• Opportunity to grow with the restaurants

We’re not a big hospitality group. We’re two independently run restaurants with different personalities, great locations and chefs who genuinely care about what they put on the plate.

We’re looking for someone who feels the same way about the restaurant floor.

If you’re currently in Australia, have at least three years’ experience leading a restaurant team and want somewhere you can bring your experience, personality and ideas to the table, we’d love to hear from you.