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