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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 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 Room Operator”

• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• 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.
• 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.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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