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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
• 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 Packer”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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