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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
• All-Round Butcher
• All Around Butcher

Tasks for “Animal Killer”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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