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Slaughterers and Meat Packers

Perform nonroutine or precision functions involving the preparation of large portions of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats. Work typically occurs in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments.

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.

Realistic

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.

Conventional

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

Investigative

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.

Enterprising

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

Social

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.

Artistic

Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Butchers and Other Meat, Poultry, and Fish Processing Workers

Production Occupations

Food Processing Workers

Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.

Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.

Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.

Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.

Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.

Skin sections of animals or whole animals.

Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.

Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.

Slaughterers and Meat Packers

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What Slaughterers and Meat Packers Do

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Slaughterers and Meat Packers

Overview

Career

What Slaughterers and Meat Packers Do

Other Job Titles Slaughterers and Meat Packers May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

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