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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”

• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• 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.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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