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