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