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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
• Shochet
• Sheep Killer
• Shactor
• Seafood Processor
• Scriber
• Sawyer
• Saw Operator
• 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 “Tank House Operator”

• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• 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.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• 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.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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