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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 Packager
• Meat Cutter
• 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 Packer
• Meat Locker Plant Employee
• Meat Dresser
• 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 Packer”

• 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.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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