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