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