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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 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 “Hog Sticker”
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- 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.
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
Related Technology & Tools
- Shrink wrap meat packing machines
- Knife sharpeners
- Shoulder tattooers
- Touch screen computers
- Package wrapping machines
- Bacon slicers
- Carcass branding machines
- Food scales
- Label printers
- Cubing machines
- Skinning knives
- Butcher knives
- Motorized saws
- Meat grading probes
- Steak patty machines
- Meat package filling and sealing machines
- Meat cleavers
- Personal computers
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Meat compactors
- Chop cutting machines
- Livestock shackles
- Casing stuffing machines
- Dehairing machines
- Food cooling equipment
- Slicing machines
- Industrial forklifts
- Blast chillers
- Meat-cutting bandsaws
- Hoisting equipment
- Electrical stunning equipment
- Belt conveyor systems
- Sharpening steels
- Meat grinders
- RFID software
- AccountMate Software AccountMate
- Microsoft Office
- Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud
- AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
- Traceability software
- Data entry software
- Second Foundation NaviMeat