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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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