A professional who tends machine that presses such meats as bacon slabs, beef cuts, hams, and hog butts, into shape to facilitate slicing or packing. Respnsibilities include:

• Positions meat on table of pressing machine and depresses pedal or pulls lever to lower ram onto meat that compresses meat into shape.
• Removes meat from machine and places in container, or on conveyor for transfer to slicing machine.
• May tend slicing machine.
• May be designated according to cut of meat pressed as Butt Presser (meat products); Ham Molder (meat products).