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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”

• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• 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.
• 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.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• 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.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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