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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
- Pelt Dropper
- 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 “Pig Sticker”
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
- 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.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- 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.
- 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.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
Related Technology & Tools
- Package wrapping machines
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Meat compactors
- Food scales
- Meat grading probes
- Dehairing machines
- Skinning knives
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Cubing machines
- Shoulder tattooers
- Touch screen computers
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Knife sharpeners
- Food cooling equipment
- Livestock shackles
- Casing stuffing machines
- Belt conveyor systems
- Bacon slicers
- Hoisting equipment
- Personal computers
- Sharpening steels
- Meat cleavers
- Carcass branding machines
- Steak patty machines
- Industrial forklifts
- Chop cutting machines
- Butcher knives
- Slicing machines
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Meat grinders
- Label printers
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Motorized saws
- Blast chillers
- RFID software
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Microsoft Office
- Traceability software
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- Data entry software