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

Tasks for “Cattle Killer”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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