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Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers - 51-3022.00

O*NET-SOC Description

Use hand or hand tools to perform routine cutting and trimming of meat, poultry, and seafood.

Sample of Reported Job Titles

  • Meat Cutter
  • Trimmer
  • Deboner
  • Wing Scorer
  • Breast Trimmer

SOC Occupation Groups

51-0000 Production Occupations
51-3000 Food Processing Workers
51-3020 Butchers and Other Meat, Poultry, and Fish Processing Workers
51-3022.00 Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

Related Occupations

Tasks

  • Clean and salt hides.
  • Clean, trim, slice, and section carcasses for future processing.
  • Cut and trim meat to prepare for packing.
  • Inspect meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove them along with any excess fat.
  • Obtain and distribute specified meat or carcass.
  • Prepare ready-to-heat foods by filleting meat or fish or cutting it into bite-sized pieces, preparing and adding vegetables or applying sauces or breading.
  • Prepare sausages, luncheon meats, hot dogs, and other fabricated meat products, using meat trimmings and hamburger meat.
  • Process primal parts into cuts that are ready for retail use.
  • Produce hamburger meat and meat trimmings.
  • Remove parts, such as skin, feathers, scales or bones, from carcass.
  • Separate meats and byproducts into specified containers and seal containers.
  • Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming.
  • Weigh meats and tag containers for weight and contents.

Detailed Work Activities

  • attach or mark identification onto products or containers
  • cut, trim, or clean meat, or carcasses
  • grade, classify, or sort products according to specifications
  • grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry or fish
  • inspect meat or meat products
  • load, unload, or stack containers, materials, or products
  • measure, weigh, or count products or materials
  • monitor the quantity of assembly output
  • operate food processing production equipment/machinery
  • preserve, cure, or cold store meat, poultry or fish
  • retrieve or place goods from/into storage
  • slaughter animals, fish, or poultry
  • use hand or power tools
  • use knives
  • wrap products

Military Crosswalk Titles

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Apprenticeship Crosswalk Titles

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DOT Crosswalk Titles

  • Animal Eviscerator
  • Boner, Meat
  • Butcher, Fish
  • Carcass Splitter
  • Casing Splitter
  • Crab Butcher
  • Crab Meat Processor
  • Cutlet Maker, Pork
  • Final-Dressing Cutter
  • Fish Chopper, Gang Knife
  • Fish Cleaner
  • Fish Roe Processor
  • Gambreler
  • Head Trimmer
  • Offal Separator
  • Poultry Boner
  • Poultry Dresser
  • Poultry Eviscerator
  • Poultry Killer
  • Sausage-Meat Trimmer
  • Skin Lifter, Bacon
  • Skinner
  • Sticker, Animal
  • Trimmer, Meat
  • Turkey-Roll Maker