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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Work in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments performing precision functions involving the preparation of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats. | Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing. | |||
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Cut, trim, skin, sort, and wash viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal. | ||||
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Slaughter animals in accordance with religious law, and determine that carcasses meet specified religious standards. | ||||
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Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals. | ||||
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Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass. | ||||
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Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering. | ||||
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Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging. | ||||
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Trim, clean, and/or cure animal hides. | ||||
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Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning. | ||||
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Skin sections of animals or whole animals. | ||||
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Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls. | ||||
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Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling. | ||||
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Grind meat into hamburger, and into trimmings used to prepare sausages, luncheon meats, and other meat products. | ||||
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Stun animals prior to slaughtering. | ||||
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Wrap dressed carcasses and/or meat cuts. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Slaughterers and Butchers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Food Production | Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Chemistry | Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Related Work Experience | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
All Around Butcher | |||
All-Round Butcher | |||
Animal Killer | |||
Animal Sticker | |||
Animal Stunner | |||
Beef Killer | |||
Beef Splitter | |||
Bitter | |||
Boning Room Worker | |||
Brainer | |||
Breast Trimmer | |||
Butcher | |||
Butcher Apprentice | |||
Cattle Killer | |||
Cold Storage Worker | |||
Delivery Driver | |||
Fetter Bone Buster | |||
Halal Meat Packer | |||
Hog Killer | |||
Hog Slaughterer | |||
Hog Sticker | |||
Kill Room Operator | |||
Killer | |||
Laborer | |||
Live Hanger | |||
Livestock Slaughterer | |||
Meat Cutter | |||
Meat Dresser | |||
Meat Locker Plant Employee | |||
Meat Packager | |||
Meat Packer | |||
Meat Processor | |||
Meat Trimmer | |||
Pelt Dropper | |||
Pig Sticker | |||
Poleman | |||
Poultry Slaughterer | |||
Production Worker | |||
Religious Ritual Slaughterer | |||
Sausage Maker | |||
Saw Operator | |||
Sawyer | |||
Scriber | |||
Shactor | |||
Sheep Killer | |||
Shochet | |||
Tank House Operator | |||
Throat Cutter | |||
Trimmer | |||
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