Senior Barista / Bartender

Nordic Hotels & Resorts; Trondheim; On-site; NOK 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Intensive training

Supplier access

Rotating stations

Growth opportunities

Professional certifications

Job summary

Villa Nord in Trondheim seeks a Senior Barista / Bartender to drive a balanced beverage program across café, bistrot and bar. You will join a historic hospitality journey and work with a team of like‑minded professionals.

You will rotate across three departments, participate in an intensive training regime, and have opportunities for professional certifications such as WSET. English is required, Norwegian is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years behind a quality-focused coffee bar or cocktail bar.
• Craft you can explain, not only execute.
• Hospitality-oriented people with exceptional character — hospitality first, ego last.
• Genuine curiosity to learn the other discipline.
• Flexibility for rotating shifts across all three departments.
• English, both oral and written — Norwegian is a huge plus.

Skills

Coffee bar experience

Cocktail skills

Hospitality mindset

English proficiency

Shift flexibility

Curiosity to learn

Job description

Senior Barista / Bartender — Hybrid Beverage Specialist

Job opportunities in one of the most interesting and historical projects in Trondheim.

Villa Nord

Job opportunities in one of the most interesting and historical projects in Trondheim.

Villa Nord opens at Dronningens gate 26, in a building that has been part of Trondheim's hospitality story since 1837. Join us on a voyage along the merchant road — a beverage journey carried across our three departments: café, bistrot and bar. Sophisticated coffee collaborations in the café; an excellent aperitivo programme at the bistrot; and a sustainable cocktail programme at the bar, built around signatures made with local ingredients. All under one roof, and one team.

We are in search of the next members of our beverage team. Detailed training will be provided in our own facilities.

We are searching for individuals with experience either in barista positions or in bartending, who have the curiosity to thrive in both departments and to keep learning. Perhaps you are a coffee professional drawn to the architecture of a cocktail — balance, dilution, texture. Perhaps you are a bartender who has always wanted to understand extraction properly, at last.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years behind a quality-focused coffee bar or cocktail bar
• Craft you can explain, not only execute
• Hospitality-oriented people with exceptional character — hospitality first, ego last
• Genuine curiosity to learn the other discipline
• Flexibility for rotating shifts across all three departments
• English, both oral and written — Norwegian is a huge plus

What we provide

• A detailed, intensive training programme across every station. Before we open, we will take you through the whole beverage programme, hands‑on and in depth. Intense training, so that everyone steps into their shifts fully prepared for this new journey.
• Time with the people behind the product. Our high‑end suppliers will support ongoing hands‑on training across the coffee and spirits world of Villa Nord — time spent directly with the roasters and producers whose work we pour. [Name your partners if you can — it carries real weight.]
• Variety, not isolation. No single station to be tied to and no shift that looks quite like the last. You will rotate across café, bistrot and bar, seeing the whole house rather than one corner of it — and you will do it beside equally ambitious, hospitality‑driven colleagues.
• Room to grow. As the team develops, opportunities to grow will be presented.
• Certified education, as part of long‑term development. Villa Nord invests in continuity. Team members who demonstrate consistent commitment and progression within the company are supported towards recognised professional certifications, WSET among them, in the discipline they wish to specialise in — a long‑term investment we make in the people who choose to build their career with us.

Say hello

We would love to hear a few things about your hospitality journey and what you would love to learn next — that second part is what we will read first. A few honest paragraphs, together with your CV, are plenty; no formal cover letter needed.

Please note:

Housing is not provided, and these positions are not seasonal at this time.