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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
• 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
• Boning Room Worker
• Bitter
• Beef Splitter
• Beef Killer
• Animal Stunner
• Animal Sticker
• Animal Killer
• All-Round Butcher
• All Around Butcher

Tasks for “Boning Room Worker”

• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• 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.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• 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.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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