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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
• Religious Ritual Slaughterer
• Poultry Slaughterer
• Poultry Processor
• 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 “Sausage Maker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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