Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that presses such meats as bacon slabs, beef cuts, hams, and hog butts, into shape to facilitate slicing or packing: Positions meat on table of pressing machine and depresses pedal or pulls lever to lower ram onto meat that compresses meat into shape.

• 2) Removes meat from machine and places in container, or on conveyor for transfer to slicing machine.

• 3) May tend slicing machine.

• 4) May be designated according to cut of meat pressed as Butt Presser; Ham Molder.