Slaughterers and Meat Packers
Top 3 Meat Packers Jobs
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Maintenance Technician
- Texas Meat Packers
- Fort Worth, TX
Texas Meat Packers also offers pork, chicken, and other poultry products. Our products are packaged with the highest quality packaging materials and equipment, and our research and development ...
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Meat packers 6am start / $ 16.50hr
- EFP Staffing
- City of Industry, CA
We are recruiting a Meat Packers 6am Start to join our team! Responsibilities: * Pick and pack * Fast paced heavy lifting * Load, unload, and stage products and materials * Adhere to safety policies ...
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Meat Wrapper
- Kinikin Processing
- Montrose, CO
Meat Packers are responsible for receiving, storing, wrapping, weighing, pricing, merchandising, and rotation of meat department products. Meat Packers work with equipment like wrapping machines
What Slaughterers and meat packers Do
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. Excludes Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers who perform routine meat cutting.
Slaughterer and meat packer Salaries
- 2020 employment: 79,700
- May 2021 median annual wage: $29,900
Job Outlook for Slaughterers and meat packers
Projected employment change, 2020-30:
- Number of new jobs: 3,400
- Growth rate: 4 percent (Slower than average)
How to Become a Slaughterer or meat packer
Education and training:
- Typical entry-level education: No formal educational credential
- Work experience in a related occupation: None
- Typical on-the-job training: Short-term on-the-job training
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*Some content used by permission of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.