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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
Also Known As…
- Trimmer
- Production Worker
- Meat Trimmer
- 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 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 “Slaughterers and Meat Packers”
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- 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.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
- 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.
- Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
Related Technology & Tools
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Meat cleavers
- Touch screen computers
- Bacon slicers
- Casing stuffing machines
- Slicing machines
- Belt conveyor systems
- Steak patty machines
- Motorized saws
- Sharpening steels
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Food cooling equipment
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Dehairing machines
- Shoulder tattooers
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Meat compactors
- Butcher knives
- Food scales
- Hoisting equipment
- Blast chillers
- Skinning knives
- Cubing machines
- Industrial forklifts
- Livestock shackles
- Meat grading probes
- Knife sharpeners
- Package wrapping machines
- Meat grinders
- Personal computers
- Label printers
- Carcass branding machines
- Chop cutting machines
- Microsoft Office
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Data entry software
- Traceability software
- RFID software
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud