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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
• 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 Room Operator
• 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 “Kill Room Operator”

• 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.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• 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.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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