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