Job Description:

• 1) Prepares meats for smoking, performing any combination of following tasks: Soaks meat in water or brine and washes and scrapes encrusted salt, slime, grease, excess moisture, and discoloration from meat.

• 2) Weighs meat and stamps or presses inspection labels, weight, or symbols on meat by hand or using branding iron.

• 3) Ties cord through small end of hams and shoulders to form hanging loop.

• 4) Encases meat in stockinets to preserve shape of meat during smoking.

• 5) Places metal hanging devices on racks, and hangs slabs of bacon on hooks of devices.

• 6) Hangs meat products on tree racks suspended from conveyor and starts conveyor to move products to smokeroom.

• 7) May strip stockinets from meat.

• 8) May trim and bone hams.

• 9) May be known according to task performed as Bagger, Meat; Comber; Hanger, Meat; Scraper, Meat; Soaker, Meat; Tier, Meat; Tree Loader, Meat; Washer, Meat.