A professional who tends oven that automatically cooks, salts, bakes, and dries pretzels. Respnsibilities include:

• Lights oven and sets thermostats of cooker, oven, and kiln at specified temperature.
• Dumps specified amount of salt, soda, and water into hoppers of oven.
• Turns valve to sprinkle salt and to allow soda solution to drain continuously into cooking pit of oven.
• Observes progress of uncooked pretzels moving on conveyor into oven, and straightens pretzels, using wire hooked rod.
• Tastes baked pretzels, observes their color, and adjusts speed of conveyor or temperature of cooker, oven, and kiln to ensure pretzels conform to color and taste standards.
• May place unbaked pretzels on oven conveyor by inverting boards loaded with pretzels.