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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
• 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
• Fetter Bone Buster
• 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 “Fetter Bone Buster”

• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• 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.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• 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.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• 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.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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