Job Description:

• 1) Tends oven that automatically cooks, salts, bakes, and dries pretzels: Lights oven and sets thermostats of cooker, oven, and kiln at specified temperature.

• 2) Dumps specified amount of salt, soda, and water into hoppers of oven.

• 3) Turns valve to sprinkle salt and to allow soda solution to drain continuously into cooking pit of oven.

• 4) Observes progress of uncooked pretzels moving on conveyor into oven, and straightens pretzels, using wire hooked rod.

• 5) 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.

• 6) May place unbaked pretzels on oven conveyor by inverting boards loaded with pretzels.