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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”

• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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