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Job Description
Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-3021.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 31,740.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 15.00
- Currently, there are 133,880 people on this job
Also Known As…
- Seafood and Service Meat Manager
- Meat Wrapper
- Meat Trimmer
- Meat Specialist
- Meat Manager
- Meat Department Manager
- Meat Cutter
- Meat Clerk
- Journeyman Meat Cutter
- Butcher
- Small Order Cutter
- Slicer
- Seafood Service Team Member
- Seafood Clerk
- Meatman
- Meat Team Member
- Meat Supervisor
- Meat Slicer
- Meat Service Team Member
- Meat Loiner
- Meat Dresser
- Meat Cutter Apprentice
- Meat Counter Worker
- Meat Carver
- Kosher Butcher
- Halal Butcher
- Cleaver
- Butcher Assistant
- Butcher Apprentice
- Blockman
Tasks for “Butchers and Meat Cutters”
- Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare meat in cooking form.
- Supervise other butchers or meat cutters.
- Negotiate with representatives from supply companies to determine order details.
- Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine.
- Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.
- Cure, smoke, tenderize and preserve meat.
- Estimate requirements and order or requisition meat supplies to maintain inventories.
- Wrap, weigh, label and price cuts of meat.
- Record quantity of meat received and issued to cooks or keep records of meat sales.
- Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery, to ensure meat quality.
- Total sales, and collect money from customers.
- Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counter, so they will appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye.
Related Technology & Tools
- Net applicators
- Wrapping machines
- Whizzard knives
- Bone dusters
- Meat cutting band saws
- Knife sharpeners
- Meat hoists
- Hand blenders
- Vacuum package machines
- Smokehouses
- Food metal detectors
- Butcher saws
- Breaking knives
- Rotisserie ovens
- Hog shackles
- Sausage linkers
- Frozen food saws
- Meat dehydrators
- Meat stringing machines
- Meat scales
- Dicers
- Bacon slicers
- Bowl choppers
- Protective ear plugs
- Fish skinners
- Frozen block grinders
- Air knives
- Beef splitting saws
- Handsaws
- Specific gravity fat analyzers
- Trim knives
- Boning knives
- Label printers
- Power staple guns
- Food thermometers
- Hamburger presses
- Fish scalers
- Protective ear muffs
- Brisket cutters
- Chefs' knives
- Butcher knives
- T-handle boning hooks
- Poultry shears
- Thermal circulators
- Beef shackles
- Anti-griddles
- Pallet jacks
- Personal computers
- Meat cleavers
- Meat cubers
- Material conveyors
- Meatball molders
- Balers
- Auto feed grinders
- Dough mixers
- Paring knives
- Boning hooks
- Mincing machines
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Financial accounting software