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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
• Debone Supervisor
• 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 “Deboning Team Leader”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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