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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
- Kill Room Operator
- 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
- Meat Cutter
- 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
- Bitter
- Beef Splitter
- Beef Killer
- Animal Stunner
- Animal Sticker
- Animal Killer
- All-Round Butcher
- All Around Butcher
Tasks for “Meat Cutter”
- Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
- 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.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
Related Technology & Tools
- Dehairing machines
- Industrial forklifts
- Hoisting equipment
- Touch screen computers
- Belt conveyor systems
- Chop cutting machines
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Steak patty machines
- Livestock shackles
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Sharpening steels
- Package wrapping machines
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Meat grading probes
- Skinning knives
- Personal computers
- Knife sharpeners
- Butcher knives
- Food cooling equipment
- Casing stuffing machines
- Label printers
- Meat cleavers
- Meat grinders
- Motorized saws
- Meat compactors
- Blast chillers
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Carcass branding machines
- Food scales
- Cubing machines
- Slicing machines
- Shoulder tattooers
- Bacon slicers
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- RFID software
- Microsoft Office
- Traceability software
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Data entry software
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS