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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 Around Butcher

Tasks for “All-Round Butcher”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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