How do they match: Slaughterers and Meat Packers

  • Meat Cutter
  • Tank House Operator
  • Throat Cutter

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
  • Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
  • Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.

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