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