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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
• Poleman
• 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 “Poultry Processor”

• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• 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.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.

Related Technology & Tools

• Casing stuffing machines
• Meat grading probes
• Meat-cutting bandsaws
• Motorized saws
• Shrink wrap meat packing machines
• Touch screen computers
• Cubing machines
• Blast chillers
• Meat compactors
• Dehairing machines
• Food cooling equipment
• Hoisting equipment
• Sharpening steels
• Livestock shackles
• Package wrapping machines
• Meat package filling and sealing machines
• Personal computers
• Electrical stunning equipment
• Chop cutting machines
• Food scales
• Slicing machines
• Shoulder tattooers
• Industrial forklifts
• Carcass branding machines
• Label printers
• Radio frequency identification RFID devices
• Bacon slicers
• Skinning knives
• Meat cleavers
• Meat grinders
• Butcher knives
• Knife sharpeners
• Steak patty machines
• Belt conveyor systems

• AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
• Microsoft Office
• Data entry software
• Traceability software
• Second Foundation NaviMeat
• AccountMate Software AccountMate
• RFID software
• Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud