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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 Packer
• 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 Trimmer
• Meat Processor
• Meat Processing Center Manager
• 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 Trimmer”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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