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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
- Brainer
- Bitter
- Beef Splitter
- Beef Killer
- Animal Stunner
- Animal Sticker
- Animal Killer
- All-Round Butcher
- All Around Butcher
Tasks for “Butcher”
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
- 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.
- Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
Related Technology & Tools
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Hoisting equipment
- Blast chillers
- Motorized saws
- Personal computers
- Meat grading probes
- Touch screen computers
- Sharpening steels
- Industrial forklifts
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Food scales
- Carcass branding machines
- Cubing machines
- Chop cutting machines
- Label printers
- Meat cleavers
- Slicing machines
- Knife sharpeners
- Meat compactors
- Food cooling equipment
- Skinning knives
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Steak patty machines
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Dehairing machines
- Butcher knives
- Shoulder tattooers
- Bacon slicers
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Livestock shackles
- Casing stuffing machines
- Belt conveyor systems
- Meat grinders
- Package wrapping machines
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Traceability software
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- Data entry software
- RFID software
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Microsoft Office