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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
- 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 “Meat Dresser”
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
- 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.
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
Related Technology & Tools
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Package wrapping machines
- Meat grinders
- Dehairing machines
- Personal computers
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Livestock shackles
- Slicing machines
- Cubing machines
- Butcher knives
- Food cooling equipment
- Food scales
- Meat grading probes
- Industrial forklifts
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Casing stuffing machines
- Carcass branding machines
- Knife sharpeners
- Bacon slicers
- Label printers
- Sharpening steels
- Skinning knives
- Touch screen computers
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Hoisting equipment
- Blast chillers
- Motorized saws
- Shoulder tattooers
- Meat compactors
- Chop cutting machines
- Meat cleavers
- Belt conveyor systems
- Steak patty machines
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Microsoft Office
- RFID software
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- Traceability software
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Data entry software
- Second Foundation NaviMeat