A professional who tends stationary or rotary hearth oven that bakes bread, pastries, and other bakery products. Respnsibilities include:

• Places pans of unbaked goods on blade of long-handled paddle (peel).
• Opens oven door and slides loaded peel into oven.
• Jerks paddle from under pans to deposit them on hearth.
• Observes gauges and turns valves to regulate heat and humidity of oven.
• Notes color of products during baking to ensure uniformity of finished products.
• Removes baked goods from oven with peel, and places them on tiered racks.
• Flips switch to position hearth for loading and unloading when tending rotary hearth oven.
• May place bagels into kettle of boiling water, remove bagels from kettle, using ladle, and sprinkle bagels with seasoning prior to placing bagels in oven.
• May be designated according to type of oven tended or product baked as Oven Tender, Bagels (bakery products); Peel Oven Tender (bakery products); Rotary-Peel Oven Tender (bakery products).