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