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