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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
• Hog Sticker
• 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 “Kill Floor Supervisor”

• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• 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.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• 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.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.

Related Technology & Tools

• Industrial forklifts
• Knife sharpeners
• Meat package filling and sealing machines
• Steak patty machines
• Meat cleavers
• Bacon slicers
• Carcass branding machines
• Dehairing machines
• Motorized saws
• Meat grinders
• Cubing machines
• Touch screen computers
• Personal computers
• Meat compactors
• Food cooling equipment
• Label printers
• Casing stuffing machines
• Radio frequency identification RFID devices
• Shoulder tattooers
• Meat-cutting bandsaws
• Meat grading probes
• Livestock shackles
• Butcher knives
• Food scales
• Slicing machines
• Blast chillers
• Package wrapping machines
• Hoisting equipment
• Sharpening steels
• Chop cutting machines
• Electrical stunning equipment
• Shrink wrap meat packing machines
• Belt conveyor systems
• Skinning knives

• Data entry software
• Traceability software
• Second Foundation NaviMeat
• AccountMate Software AccountMate
• Microsoft Office
• Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
• AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
• RFID software