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