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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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