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