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