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