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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 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
- 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 “Hog Killer”
- 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.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- 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.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
Related Technology & Tools
- Belt conveyor systems
- Steak patty machines
- Carcass branding machines
- Chop cutting machines
- Livestock shackles
- Meat grinders
- Meat cleavers
- Knife sharpeners
- Food scales
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Touch screen computers
- Label printers
- Casing stuffing machines
- Shoulder tattooers
- Meat compactors
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Personal computers
- Industrial forklifts
- Butcher knives
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Bacon slicers
- Cubing machines
- Blast chillers
- Sharpening steels
- Food cooling equipment
- Motorized saws
- Meat grading probes
- Slicing machines
- Dehairing machines
- Skinning knives
- Hoisting equipment
- Package wrapping machines
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Electrical stunning equipment
- RFID software
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- Traceability software
- Microsoft Office
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- Second Foundation NaviMeat
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Data entry software