How do they match: Slaughterers and Meat Packers

  • Slaughterers and Meat Packers

  • Boning Room Worker
  • Cold Storage Worker
  • Debone Supervisor
  • Debone Processing Supervisor
  • Kill Floor Supervisor
  • Saw Operator
  • Tank House Operator

  • 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.

  • Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products.
  • Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
  • Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.

  • Clean materials to prepare them for production.
  • Cut meat products.
  • Prepare meat products for sale or consumption.