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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”

• 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.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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