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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 Sticker
• Animal Killer
• All-Round Butcher
• All Around Butcher

Tasks for “Animal Stunner”

• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• 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.
• 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.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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