Job Description:

• 1) Loads cuts of meat into pickling vats or barrels to cure meat preparatory to smoking: Packs and arranges meat in vats or barrels by hand or with meat hook to ensure maximum saturation.

• 2) Turns valves to admit curing solution into vats or pours in solution by hand.

• 3) Covers vat or barrel to keep meat protected and submerged in solution.

• 4) Sticks trier into meat and smells trier to determine degree of curing.

• 5) Opens valves or pulls bungs to drain vats and barrels, and removes cured meat for further processing.

• 6) Dumps frozen meat in water tank to defrost it preparatory to curing.

• 7) May roll barrels to rearrange meat and ensure maximum saturation.

• 8) May flush or blow marrow from ham bones.

• 9) May clean vats with water and steam hoses.