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We believe hospitality and retail food businesses are the beating heart of a community. Places to connect or escape, share a meal, swap a story, form an idea, or simply grab something you love to take home with you.
It’s our mission to not only make incredible products, but to run a world class business by having a seriously great team, strong principles, excellent company culture, and enormous respect for our clients.
Our door is always open to passionate people who love their craft.
Our Departments
Our presentation people, making sure our hand formed sourdough and artisan pastries get to our customers looking their best.
The creators of our incredible Three Mills Bakery sourdough. Masters of taste, texture and beautiful looking bread.
These number wizards support our business with complete oversight of our financial position to enable our long-term success.
Responsible for creating joy in our retail sites one experience at a time.
Protectors of our culture and purpose. Providing our team members with training and opportunities for long term success.
Our delivery team ensures products get to our customers on time and in peak condition.
Empowering and supporting our teams for long term success through creating joy, staying curious and being generous.
Our voice that connects us with our customers and community.
The connectors that enable each department to deliver exceptional experiences to our customers.
A skilled team of crafts people creating world class pastries that bring joy to our customers.
Curiosity is what drives our innovators to continuously reimagine and elevate our products.
Pivotal to sharing our values and products with our wholesale partners. They build meaningful relationships that help businesses thrive.
Opportunities
Are you an early bird looking for a new challenge?
We’re after part-time drivers to join our incredible logistics team.
Our drivers are a crucial part of Three Mills.
They thrive on efficiency, problem solve on the daily and are excited about delivering awesome products with a focus of creating joyful experiences for our clients.
The business:
We’re a young and energetic team pushing towards excellence in our industry. Our workplace is part café, part wholesale operation and we value workplace culture, high quality products and providing great experiences.
We welcome anyone who shares our passion and is driven to produce world class products and services.
About the Role:
We have some opportunities open that would suit folks who are available for a few hours, a couple of times a week.
4am starts and all done by 7.30am so you can get on with the rest of your day!
The successful applicant will be required to work Saturdays and/or Sundays with other days negotiable.
As a member of our Driving team, you need to be enthusiastic and knowledgeable about our product. Not only will you be a confident driver, you must be efficient and organised. You must have a friendly disposition as you are the face of the company; often the first point of contact each day for our clients. You must be thoughtful and have an understanding of the café industry to enable you to relate to our clients; while balancing a great need for efficiency.
Applicants must have a strong work ethic and you will be expected to demonstrate the following skills at the highest level:
Communication
Attention to detail
Problem solving
Sense of urgency
Organisation
Cleanliness
If this sounds like you, get in touch!
To apply, please address the selection criteria below:
- How long have you had your drivers licence for?
- Do you have a clean driving record?
- Why are you interested in working at Three Mills Bakery?
- Of our values listed below, which one resonates with you and why?
- Describe a time where you have demonstrated good problem-solving skills (either as an individual, or as part of a team).
- Describe 3 personal strengths.
Attach your resume and answers to the selection criteria via email to: careers@threemillsbakery.com.au
Why join:
– Amazing sunrises
– An energetic and supportive team, that pushes towards excellence in everything we do
– Free coffee and pastries of course!
Our primary values are:
- Create joy through our artisan craft – one experience at a time
- Rethink & improve
- Share. Share knowledge, share skills, share kindness; be generous
Most financial roles are pretty boring. But this one isn’t one of them…
So if you’re wildly excited about solving complex end-to-end financial challenges that directly impact a growing leadership in an exciting food business, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for someone at a Financial Controller level to help drive positive change within Three Mills Bakery and associated businesses. It’s an active role working on strategy and implementation that you’ll lead and make your own. You must be a happy human who can create and implement sustainable systems that capture and make sense of data sets and help drive our business from a financial perspective.
Of course the role also involves the business-as-usual elements around reporting, payroll and compliance, but that should come easy to the successful applicant.
Success in the role will rely on being an excellent communicator and effective doer. Someone who can help others, align teams (financially), and think creatively about solving root causes in order to achieve sustainable results.
Although we’ve partnered with excellent external Accountants to date, you will be responsible for building elements from the ground up instead of conforming to current systems as we explore moving to a more capable piece of software.
But it’s not all about skills, we’re also looking for the right personality. To give you an understanding of our expectations, here are some responsibilities we can see you taking control of:
Our new Financial Genius must demonstrate the following:
- Exceptional analytical skills and financial acumen including general commercial experience
- Able to analyse and interpret data to make decisions
- Ability to dig into balance sheet reconciliations, identify the process behind the numbers, and resolve errors
- Curiosity to investigate issues detected when reviewing reports and the enthusiasm to go the extra mile to resolve them
- High level of written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and people management skills
- High level of emotional intelligence and agility
- Ability to strategically plan and influence others
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail with the ability to maintain detailed and accurate records
- A creative approach to problem solving
- A high level of computer literacy
- An ability to perform required duties with a minimum level of supervision
- Certified bookkeeper and registered BAS Agent
- Preferably CA / CPA Qualified
- Proficient in Xero and MYOB
- 3+ years’ experience as a Financial Controller or similar
Key duties
- Actively contribute to the planning, reporting and monitoring of the finances of the business.
- Oversee the timely and accurate lodgements of BAS, payroll, licensing and other required regulatory obligations.
- Overall management of accounts payable, payroll and inventory/invoice functions.
- Prepare monthly management reports including analysis of overall business performance, and financial position and review with the CEO
- Prepare annual three-way budgets for the group
- Cash flow planning and reporting
- Establish financial controls and procedures
- Identify cost saving opportunities while maintaining quality of business
- Continuous improvement of business systems, data management and financial analysis and reporting
- Provide input into key commercial decisions to ensure the business can deliver within its means
What it’s like to work with us:
- Work in a flexible, relaxed and friendly environment
- Own the finance function – make it yours
- Involved in rapid expansion and be exposed to the challenges of a business that grows quickly, distributes nationally and adapts to change swiftly
- Grow the role further and develop the finance team
- We’re a bakery at heart – free coffee, sourdough and pastries come with the territory.
Essential:
- Demonstrated ability to work independently to organise and prioritise demands,
- Handle multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
- Set and meet deadlines with competing demands
- Strong communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in either Accounting or Commerce
- CPA/CA designation
- A minimum of 8+ years’ experience in an accounting/finance role
- Strong PC skills and IT knowledge
- Right to work in Australia
- Role is based in Fyshwick, ACT but we offer flexible working-from-home days.
These aren’t essential but would make you stand out:
- Knowledge of food and or manufacturing Industry
- Software implementation experience | switching systems
- Warehouse management experience and implementation
APPLY NOW BY EMAILING careers@threemillsbakery.com.au AND ANSWER ALL THE SELECTION CRITERIA QUESTIONS:
SELECTION CRITERIA
Questions
- We believe that a successful Financial Controller can use data to positively influence culture and drive organisational change. Describe a way you’ve used data to influence the culture of an organisation.
- What about this opportunity excites you the most?
- We’re on a mission to scale without losing quality or connection which means we need to be highly efficient. Give examples of where you have successfully implemented efficiencies in other businesses that led to easier workflow and/or improved profit.
- Explain a time where you successfully handed over a business-as-usual task to another member team or found software to automate a process that freed you up to do higher level work.
- Describe your ideal role in finance. What are you responsible for?
- What does success look like in your ideal finance role?
- Describe how you would implement effective succession planning in your role.
On a scale of 1 – 10 (10 being highly competent), rate your capabilities/experience in the following areas:
Responsibilities:
- Xero and app integrations
- Accounts payable/receivable and BAS lodgements
- Ecommerce
- Complete payroll for 100+ employees
- Compliance and reporting processes
- Financial strategy and forecasting
- Displaying data in meaningful ways for various teams to use
- Managing a team of employees greater than 5
- Demonstrating financial leadership throughout an organisation
- Understanding of taxation
Personal:
- Self-directed, autonomous working arrangements
- Acute attention to detail
- Ability to cooperate with other Senior Leaders
- Ability to fight for what is true and right (in your opinion)
- Adapt to the changing environments of business.
- Set and achieve goals independently
- Verbal communication skills and meeting presentations
Give examples where you feel necessary.
Do you love numbers and data as much as you love fresh baked goods?
We’re looking for a gun bookkeeper to join our team, who can take ownership of the day-to-day bookkeeping, data extraction and reporting for our large, Canberra based, hospitality business, Three Mills Bakery.
With the support of our highly competent Financial Assistant and under the supervision of a registered BAS Agent we need someone who is super organised and solutions focused who understands the positive impact numbers and data have on our growing food business.
Salary and hours are open for negotiation with the right applicant, ideally, joining us onsite in Fyshwick ACT on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 9am-2pm.
We’re open to discuss BAS supervision hours if you are looking to become a registered BAS Agent.
Sound like the perfect role for you? Read on. . .
Skills
- Demonstrated bookkeeping experience and current qualifications.
- Keen eye for identifying process improvements together with offering suitable solutions is most welcome.
- Well-developed communication skills (oral and written) with the ability to interpret data.
- High attention to detail and expert Microsoft Excel skills and Google Sheets (functions and formulas) are a must.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build solid working relationships.
- The ability to deliver on a full workload whilst balancing competing and changing priorities.
- Provide solid data extraction, analysis and reporting whilst maintaining discretion.
- Conclude data analysis with the ability to identify key business information, trends, and flags.
- Take direction from, and provide support to, multiple leaders and colleagues.
- Value continuous growth and development with a drive to learn and share.
Company Description
Friendly, supportive, and fast paced non-corporate environment, with engaged people who are the best of the best and love what we do. We are committed to continuous growth, thinking outside the box, knowledge sharing and we don’t get bogged down in pointless activities.
Our primary values are:
- Create joy through our artisan craft – one experience at a time
- Be Curious. Rethink & improve
- Be Generous. Share knowledge, share skills, share kindness
To Apply:
Email a copy of your resume and answers to the selection criteria below to
careers@threemillsbakery.com.au
- Why are you interested in working at Three Mills Bakery?
- Of our values listed above, which one resonates with you and why?
- List 3 elements of excellent workplace culture and how you would contribute to maintaining them.
- List 3 ways you currently educate yourself to stay current in your field?
- Describe 3 personal strengths.
Applications only accepted with selection criteria answers.
We get you – You’re wildly excited about using incredible food as a subject for excellent storytelling, and you’re in your happy place when customers are eating your content as much as they’re eating delicious baked goods.
We’re a premium food business at heart that’s beginning to operate like a media company too. We see value in not only making excellent products, but also telling the story behind them to build connections with people who would love them.
We’re looking for someone to join us with a solid understanding of video and digital communications.
You know you’re right for the role if you often nerd out about:
- Brands who tell stories really well.
- Solving end-to-end problems for customers.
- Simplicity.
- Achieving more with less.
You’re probably also:
- Cool under pressure.
- A doer who looks for solutions.
- Super organised.
- Highly autonomous (but play well with others).
We’re guessing, but you’re probably looking for:
- Opportunities to be a part of something from the beginning.
- Better subjects to tell stories about.
- Less old-fashioned hierarchy BS.
- A better team around you.
We see our Marketing team as the beating heart of our emerging food business. A central place for communications, and a bridge between customers, suppliers, and our teams.
Naturally, we’re looking for the right personality fit followed by the right skill set for our small team. To give you an understanding of our expectations around skillset here’s the nuts and bolts of what we’re looking for.
Responsibilities:
- Working with our Brand & Marketing Manager to develop video content with the aim of increasing brand awareness, customer engagement and lead generation.
- Create captivating content which may include but not limited to; cross platform and platform specific multimedia, working with influencers, industry partners and the community.
- End to end video production including ideation, scripting, storyboarding, shoot coordination, filming and editing.
- Create “how to” guides/videos to drive education and training for our B2B and B2C clients and internal teams.
- Maintain, evolve and adhere to content standards, style guides, compliance (legal) and voice and tone.
- Staying up-to-date with the latest social media content trends and technologies to ensure we continue to capitalise on new and existing opportunities.
Skills:
- 3-5 years videography experience.
- Exceptional story-telling and communication skills through a variety of mediums (written, verbal and visual)
- Ability to express brand tone of voice creatively.
- Highly proficient in Adobe Premier Pro or equivalent.
- Experience with ecommerce platforms (WordPress/Woocommerce and Square preferred).
- Highly efficient and able to work to tight deadlines.
- Photography skills an advantage.
What we’re offering:
- Full-time position.
- Competitive salary package.
- Free Coffee and of course delicious bakery products to enjoy!
- Based in our Canberra HQ this role requires you to be on site Monday – Friday.
- Welcoming interstate applicants interested in relocating.
Our primary values are:
- Create joy through our artisan craft – one experience at a time
- Curiosity. Rethink & improve
- Generosity. Share knowledge, share skills, share kindness; be generous.
To Apply:
Using the Career Enquiry form below, select Marketing as the team you would like to be a part of, answer the selection criteria and Send along with your resume.
You must be wildly excited about creating remarkable experiences!
Being an expert barista, knowing our products intimately and being able to create a memorable moment every single time you interact – need to be at the core of your being!
You must be a happy human who can read the room and create joy through all the little things that you do.
Our cafés at Fyshwick [Home of Pastry – Newcastle St. Home of Sourdough – Leeton St] are young and energetic teams pushing towards excellence in our industry. Our workplace is diverse, we are part café, part production of pastries and sourdough, part wholesale operation. We value workplace culture, high quality products and providing great experiences.
We welcome anyone who shares our passion and is driven to produce world class products and services.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Barista experience a must.
We have opportunities for a Superstar Barista as well as Front of House team members. Our mission is to create a diverse team. Our Baristas are not only baristas, they are also experts in our pastry and sourdough products, they are amazing maître d’s, waiters, cleaners and all round legends! Your passion has to align with the overall experience for our customers.
Both sites are open 7 days a week. We are seeking Full Time or permanent part time members.
The successful applicant can demonstrate the following skills at the highest level:
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Sense of urgency
- Organisation
- Cleanliness
- Team Work
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Minimum 2 years hospitality experience is a must.
Management experience a bonus.
Our Values:
Our primary values are:
- Create joy through our artisan craft – one experience at a time
- We have a passion for innovation. Rethink & improve
- Share. Share skills, share knowledge, share feedback. Being generous.
To Apply:
Using the Career Enquiry form below, answer the selection criteria and send along with your resume.
Not only does Three Mills supply hand-made sourdough and pastries direct to our customers through our 2 cafes (+home delivery and Three Mills ‘Collective’); and supply local Canberra cafes / restaurants & independent grocers; we are also launching our Bake at Home range of pastries nationally.
It is an exciting time to join our business!
We are looking for both a Qualified Baker and an Apprentice Baker.
About YOU:
You must be wildly excited about creating incredible products!
We’re a young and energetic team committed to hand-made sourdough and pastries and continually pushing towards excellence in our industry.
We are here to create joy through our craft at every point of contact we have, with our own team members, with customers that visit us at our sites, with our wholesale clients locally and nationally.
We welcome people who share our passion and are driven to produce world class products and services.
We invest heavily in R&D and work collaboratively across all departments (pastry, kitchen, bakery, marketing, operations, front of house, finance) to achieve best outcomes.
About the Role
We are seeking apprentice and qualified Bakers to produce hand formed, stone baked sourdough, as well as a range of sourdoughs and buns for wholesale/café clients. Our bakers are involved in the whole process, from mixing through to slicing and packing the end product, you get to put your hands into every part of the process.
Our Home of Sourdough is at our Leeton St location. (Our Home of Pastry is at our Newcastle St location). We operate 7 days a week/365 days a year. Shifts are mostly day time hours, although we are always cross training and ensuring the night time shifts are shared. Weekend work is expected.
The successful applicant can demonstrate the following skills at the highest level:
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Sense of urgency
- Organisation
- Cleanliness
- Team Work
If you’re someone who works well in a team environment and enjoys being a reliable and valued member of an energetic organisation, we’d love to hear from you!
Our Values:
- Create joy through our artisan craft – one experience at a time
- Rethink & improve
- Share. Share knowledge, share skills, share kindness; be generous.
REQUIRED: for qualified positions – Cert III with 2 years of experience, Cert IV or 3 years of relevant experience
Job benefits and perks
- Excellent coffee
- Great take home food perks
- Awesome team environment
To Apply:
Using the Career Enquiry form below, answer the selection criteria and send along with your resume.
Applications only accepted that address the selection questions
Not only does Three Mills supply hand-made sourdough and pastries direct to our customers through our 2 cafes (+home delivery and Three Mills ‘Collective’); and supply local Canberra cafes / restaurants & independent grocers; we are also launching our Bake at Home range of pastries nationally.
It is an exciting time to join our business!
We are looking for both a Qualified Pastry Cook and an Apprentices.
About YOU:
You must be wildly excited about creating incredible products!
We’re a young and energetic team committed to hand-made sourdough and pastries and continually pushing towards excellence in our industry.
We are here to create joy through our craft at every point of contact we have, with our own team members, with customers that visit us at our sites, with our wholesale clients locally and nationally.
We welcome people who share our passion and are driven to produce world class products and services.
We invest heavily in R&D and work collaboratively across all departments (pastry, kitchen, bakery, marketing, operations, front of house, finance) to achieve best outcomes.
About the Role
We are seeking apprentice and qualified Pastry Cooks to produce viennoiserie style artisan pastries. Both baked pastries that we produce daily to supply our own cafes and wholesale clients – as well as production of our Bake at Home range of laminated pastries, pies, sausage rolls, tarts and more! Be involved in the whole production – from mixing the initial dough through to baking or packing the end product, you get to put your hands into every part of the process.
Our Home of Pastry is at our Newcastle St location. (Our Home of Sourdough is at our Leeton St location). We operate 7 days a week/365 days a year. Shifts are mostly day time hours, although we are always cross training and ensuring the night time shifts are shared. Weekend work is expected.
The successful applicant can demonstrate the following skills at the highest level:
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Sense of urgency
- Organisation
- Cleanliness
- Team Work
If you’re someone who works well in a team environment and enjoys being a reliable and valued member of an energetic organisation, we’d love to hear from you!
Our Values:
- Create joy through our artisan craft – one experience at a time
- Rethink & improve
- Share. Share knowledge, share skills, share kindness; be generous.
REQUIRED: for qualified positions – Cert III with 2 years of experience, Cert IV or 3 years of relevant experience
Job benefits and perks
- Excellent coffee
- Great take home food perks
- Awesome team environment
To Apply:
Using the Career Enquiry form below, answer the selection criteria and send along with your resume.
Applications only accepted that address the selection questions
Not only does Three Mills supply hand-made sourdough and pastries direct to our customers through our 2 cafes (+home delivery and Three Mills ‘Collective’); and supply local Canberra cafes / restaurants & independent grocers; we are also launching our Bake at Home range of pastries nationally.
It is an exciting time to join our business!
We are looking for both a Qualified Chef and Apprentices
This is a unique position where we partner your culinary experience with our pastry chefs to help produce an amazing range of sweet and savoury pastry products in both our Café range and our Bake at Home range!
We’re using some state of the art equipment along with staying true to our artisan craft and hand forming products.
About YOU:
You must be wildly excited about creating incredible products!
We’re a young and energetic team committed to hand-made sourdough and pastries and continually pushing towards excellence in our industry.
We are here to create joy through our craft at every point of contact we have, with our own team members, with customers that visit us at our sites, with our wholesale clients locally and nationally.
We welcome people who share our passion and are driven to produce world class products and services.
We invest heavily in R&D and work collaboratively across all departments (pastry, kitchen, bakery, marketing, operations, front of house, finance) to achieve best outcomes.
About the Role
We are seeking qualified Chefs and apprentices to be involved in the production of viennoiserie style artisan pastries (both baked and our Bake at Home range) and potentially our hand formed, stone baked sourdoughs.
The Bakery operates 7 days a week, across 2 sites in Fyshwick. (Our Home of Pastry is at our Newcastle St site and our Home of Sourdough is at our Leeton St site)
Shifts are mostly day time hours, although we are always cross training and ensuring the night time shifts are shared. Weekend work is expected.
The successful applicant can demonstrate the following skills at the highest level:
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Sense of urgency
- Organisation
- Cleanliness
- Team Work
If you’re someone who works well in a team environment and enjoys being a reliable and valued member of an energetic organisation, we’d love to hear from you!
Our Values:
- Create joy through our artisan craft – one experience at a time
- Rethink & improve
- Share. Share knowledge, share skills, share kindness; be generous.
REQUIRED: for qualified positions – Cert III with 2 years of experience, Cert IV or 3 years of relevant experience
Job benefits and perks
- Excellent coffee
- Great take home food perks
- Awesome team environment
To Apply:
Using the Career Enquiry form below, answer the selection criteria and send along with your resume.
Applications only accepted that address the selection questions
