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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”

• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• 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.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• 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.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• 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.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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