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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”

• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Skin sections of animals or whole 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.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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