How do they match: Slaughterers and Meat Packers

  • Trimmer
  • Meat Cutter
  • Meat Trimmer
  • 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.
  • Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
  • Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
  • 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.
  • Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
  • Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
  • Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.

  • Cut meat products.
  • Clean materials to prepare them for production.