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