A professional who tends machine that chops and mixes ground meat into emulsion for use in making such products as bologna, meat loaves, sausages, and wieners. Respnsibilities include:

• Dumps ground meat and premixed seasonings into chopping machine, using fork or hoist, or pulls lever to raise hopper and turns valve to feed meat trimmings into chopping machine.
• Pours designated amount of premixed seasonings and water or ice into chopping machine to season, moisten, and obtain specified temperature of mixture.
• Starts machine to mix emulsion to specified consistency.
• Stops machine and pulls lever to lower center core of mixing bowl and discharge emulsion into pan or truck.
• Scrapes emulsion from bowl.
• May push truck filled with emulsion to stuffing machine.
• May grind meat.
• May add ingredients, such as pickles, olives, and pimentos to emulsion.