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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 Processing 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 Supervisor”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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