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