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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
- Production Worker
- Meat Trimmer
- Meat Packer
- Meat Packager
- Meat Cutter
- Kill Room Operator
- Fetter Bone Buster
- Breast Trimmer
- Boning Room Worker
- Trimmer
- 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
- 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 “Trimmer”
- 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.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- 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.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
Related Technology & Tools
- Dehairing machines
- Skinning knives
- Steak patty machines
- Carcass branding machines
- Package wrapping machines
- Livestock shackles
- Belt conveyor systems
- Sharpening steels
- Industrial forklifts
- Touch screen computers
- Cubing machines
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Food cooling equipment
- Meat cleavers
- Meat compactors
- Food scales
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Label printers
- Chop cutting machines
- Personal computers
- Knife sharpeners
- Casing stuffing machines
- Butcher knives
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Shoulder tattooers
- Meat grading probes
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Slicing machines
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Hoisting equipment
- Bacon slicers
- Blast chillers
- Motorized saws
- Meat grinders
- RFID software
- Data entry software
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Traceability software
- Microsoft Office
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- AccountMate Software AccountMate