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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
- Tank House Operator
- 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 “Throat Cutter”
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- 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.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- 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.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- 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.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
Related Technology & Tools
- Carcass branding machines
- Meat cleavers
- Bacon slicers
- Skinning knives
- Motorized saws
- Food cooling equipment
- Livestock shackles
- Meat grinders
- Touch screen computers
- Meat grading probes
- Chop cutting machines
- Personal computers
- Cubing machines
- Blast chillers
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Slicing machines
- Sharpening steels
- Dehairing machines
- Industrial forklifts
- Knife sharpeners
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Shoulder tattooers
- Meat compactors
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Butcher knives
- Food scales
- Steak patty machines
- Label printers
- Package wrapping machines
- Hoisting equipment
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Belt conveyor systems
- Casing stuffing machines
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Data entry software
- Traceability software
- RFID software
- Microsoft Office