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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 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 Processing Center Manager”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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