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