A professional who tends equipment that forces meat emulsion into casings to make meat products, such as linked sausages, frankfurters, and wieners. Respnsibilities include:

• Lifts lid from compression cylinder and shovels meat emulsion into cylinder.
• Tamps emulsion with shovel to remove air pockets and replaces lid.
• Turns valve to admit compressed air into cylinder.
• Slides casing over discharge nozzle and moves lever to discharge emulsion into casing.
• Ties knot in end of filled casing, or seals casing with clipping device to prevent loss of emulsion.
• May tend machine that automatically fills, links, and ties casings with wire band.
• May feed filled casing into linking machine.
• May tend stuffing machine that fills casings with bulk sausage and be designated Bulk-Sausage-Stuffing-Machine Operator (meat products).