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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”

• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• 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.
• 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.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• Microsoft Office
• AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
• Data entry software
• AccountMate Software AccountMate
• Traceability software
• Second Foundation NaviMeat
• RFID software