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