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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
• Brainer
• Bitter
• Beef Splitter
• Beef Killer
• Animal Stunner
• Animal Sticker
• Animal Killer
• All-Round Butcher
• All Around Butcher

Tasks for “Butcher Apprentice”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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