A professional who tends electrically powered bandsaw that cuts portions from hams to prepare hams for smoking, curing, or packing processes. Respnsibilities include:

• Lifts ham from meat tank onto saw table, using meat hook.
• Presses button to start saw and adjusts saw gauges according to size of ham.
• Pushes and guides ham into saw blade by hand or with wooden device to cut shank from ham or to remove tip from shank.
• Pushes sawed meat onto conveyor for further processing.
• May tend bandsaw that cuts poultry into serving pieces for packaging.