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Slaughterers and Meat Packers - 51-3023.00

O*NET-SOC 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.

Sample of Reported Job Titles

  • Meat Cutter
  • Meat Trimmer
  • Meat Packer
  • Boning Room Worker
  • Meat Packager
  • Production Worker
  • Trimmer
  • Breast Trimmer
  • Fetter Bone Buster
  • Kill Room Operator

SOC Occupation Groups

Related Occupations

Tasks

  • 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.
  • Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
  • Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
  • Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
  • Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
  • Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
  • Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
  • Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards.
  • Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
  • Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
  • Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
  • Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
  • Trim, clean, and/or cure animal hides.
  • Wrap dressed carcasses and/or meat cuts.

Detailed Work Activities

  • cut, trim, or clean meat, or carcasses
  • grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry or fish
  • identify cut or grade of meat
  • inspect meat or meat products
  • measure, weigh, or count products or materials
  • operate food processing production equipment/machinery
  • slaughter animals, fish, or poultry
  • use hand or power tools
  • use knives
  • wrap products

Military Crosswalk Titles

No information available.

Apprenticeship Crosswalk Titles

  • Butcher, All-Round

DOT Crosswalk Titles

  • Butcher Apprentice
  • Butcher, All-Round
  • Meat Dresser
  • Slaughterer, Religious Ritual