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Job Description

Work in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments performing precision functions involving the preparation of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-3023.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 27,040.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 13.00
• Currently, there are 80,780 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Slaughterers and Meat Packers”.

Also Known As…

• Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Trimmer
• Production Worker
• Meat Trimmer
• Meat Packer
• Meat Packager
• Meat Cutter
• Kill Room Operator
• Fetter Bone Buster
• Breast Trimmer
• Boning Room Worker
• Throat Cutter
• Tank House Operator
• Shochet
• Sheep Killer
• Shactor
• Seafood Processor
• Scriber
• Sawyer
• Saw Operator
• Sausage Maker
• Religious Ritual Slaughterer
• Poultry Slaughterer
• Poultry Processor
• Poleman
• Pig Sticker
• Pelt Dropper
• Meat Processor
• Meat Processing Center Manager
• Meat Locker Plant Employee
• Meat Dresser
• Livestock Slaughterer
• Live Hanger
• Laborer
• Killer
• Kill Floor Supervisor
• Hog Sticker
• Hog Slaughterer
• Hog Killer
• Halal Meat Packer
• Delivery Driver
• Deboning Team Leader
• Debone Supervisor
• Debone Processing Supervisor
• Cold Storage Worker
• Cattle Killer
• Butcher Apprentice
• Butcher
• Brainer
• Bitter
• Beef Splitter
• Beef Killer
• Animal Stunner
• Animal Sticker
• Animal Killer
• All-Round Butcher

Tasks for “All Around Butcher”

• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.

Related Technology & Tools

• Package wrapping machines
• Butcher knives
• Hoisting equipment
• Bacon slicers
• Touch screen computers
• Knife sharpeners
• Food cooling equipment
• Carcass branding machines
• Skinning knives
• Personal computers
• Meat grinders
• Slicing machines
• Steak patty machines
• Meat package filling and sealing machines
• Dehairing machines
• Shoulder tattooers
• Sharpening steels
• Radio frequency identification RFID devices
• Food scales
• Meat-cutting bandsaws
• Belt conveyor systems
• Casing stuffing machines
• Label printers
• Livestock shackles
• Shrink wrap meat packing machines
• Cubing machines
• Meat cleavers
• Chop cutting machines
• Motorized saws
• Blast chillers
• Electrical stunning equipment
• Meat compactors
• Industrial forklifts
• Meat grading probes

• Traceability software
• AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
• Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
• RFID software
• Second Foundation NaviMeat
• AccountMate Software AccountMate
• Data entry software
• Microsoft Office