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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
• 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
• 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 “Seafood Processor”

• Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
• Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
• Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
• Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
• Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
• Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
• Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
• Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
• Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
• Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
• 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.
• Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
• Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.

Related Technology & Tools

• Label printers
• Meat cleavers
• Meat package filling and sealing machines
• Butcher knives
• Carcass branding machines
• Industrial forklifts
• Sharpening steels
• Skinning knives
• Blast chillers
• Food cooling equipment
• Touch screen computers
• Dehairing machines
• Chop cutting machines
• Meat grading probes
• Hoisting equipment
• Package wrapping machines
• Livestock shackles
• Electrical stunning equipment
• Motorized saws
• Food scales
• Casing stuffing machines
• Bacon slicers
• Shoulder tattooers
• Steak patty machines
• Meat compactors
• Knife sharpeners
• Belt conveyor systems
• Meat-cutting bandsaws
• Slicing machines
• Shrink wrap meat packing machines
• Cubing machines
• Personal computers
• Meat grinders
• Radio frequency identification RFID devices

• AccountMate Software AccountMate
• Traceability software
• Data entry software
• AgInfoLink Meat Inventory Tracking System MITS
• Second Foundation NaviMeat
• RFID software
• Microsoft Office
• Integrated Management Systems Food Connex Cloud