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