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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
• All Around Butcher

Tasks for “Boning Room Worker”

• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• 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.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• 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.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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