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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
• 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
• Breast Trimmer
• Brainer
• Bitter
• Beef Splitter
• Beef Killer
• Animal Stunner
• Animal Sticker
• Animal Killer
• All-Round Butcher
• All Around Butcher

Tasks for “Breast Trimmer”

• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• 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.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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