A professional who prepares and bakes pizza pies. Respnsibilities include:

• Measures ingredients, such as flour, water, and yeast, using measuring cup, spoon, and scale.
• Dumps specified ingredients into pan or bowl of mixing machine preparatory to mixing.
• Starts machine and observes operation until ingredients are mixed to desired consistency.
• Stops machine and dumps dough into proof box to allow dough to rise.
• Kneads fermented dough.
• Cuts out and weighs amount of dough required to produce pizza pies of desired thickness.
• Shapes dough sections into balls or mounds and sprinkles each section with flour to prevent crust forming until used.
• Greases pan.
• Stretches or spreads dough mixture to size of pan.
• Places dough in pan and adds olive oil and tomato puree, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, meat, or other garnish on surface of dough, according to kind of pizza ordered.
• Sets thermostatic controls and inserts pizza into heated oven to bake for specified time.
• Removes product from oven and observes color to determine when pizza is done.