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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”
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- 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.
- Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Meat grinders
- Sharpening steels
- Meat cleavers
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Industrial forklifts
- Butcher knives
- Dehairing machines
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Touch screen computers
- Belt conveyor systems
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Shoulder tattooers
- Food cooling equipment
- Casing stuffing machines
- Carcass branding machines
- Package wrapping machines
- Skinning knives
- Cubing machines
- Livestock shackles
- Label printers
- Hoisting equipment
- Food scales
- Knife sharpeners
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Bacon slicers
- Meat grading probes
- Personal computers
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Chop cutting machines
- Steak patty machines
- Meat compactors
- Motorized saws
- Slicing machines
- Blast chillers
- RFID software
- Data entry software
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Traceability software
- Microsoft Office
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS