How do they match: Slaughterers and Meat Packers

  • Meat Cutter
  • 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.
  • Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
  • Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
  • Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.

  • Cut meat products.