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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”

• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• 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.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• 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.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• 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.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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