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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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