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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 Killer
• All-Round Butcher
• All Around Butcher

Tasks for “Animal Sticker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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