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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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