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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
• 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 “Debone Processing Supervisor”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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