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