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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 Slaughterer
- Hog Killer
- Halal Meat Packer
- Delivery Driver
- Deboning Team Leader
- 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 “Hog Sticker”
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- 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.
- Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
Related Technology & Tools
- Food scales
- Steak patty machines
- Livestock shackles
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Cubing machines
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Meat grinders
- Meat compactors
- Sharpening steels
- Personal computers
- Industrial forklifts
- Motorized saws
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Package wrapping machines
- Casing stuffing machines
- Blast chillers
- Label printers
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Belt conveyor systems
- Skinning knives
- Carcass branding machines
- Bacon slicers
- Knife sharpeners
- Hoisting equipment
- Food cooling equipment
- Shoulder tattooers
- Chop cutting machines
- Dehairing machines
- Meat grading probes
- Meat cleavers
- Butcher knives
- Slicing machines
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Touch screen computers
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- RFID software
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- Microsoft Office
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Data entry software
- Traceability software
- AccountMate Software AccountMate