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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
• 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 “Livestock Slaughterer”

• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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