Slaughterers & Meat Packers
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Education:
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Details
Education Details
61%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
29%
Less than a High School Diploma
11%
Some College Courses
Salary
High:
$43,700.00
Average:
$34,920.00
Hourly
Average:
$16.79
Summary of What they 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.
Responsibilities
Tasks On The Job
- 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.
- Saw, split, or scribe carcasses into smaller portions to facilitate handling.
- Sever jugular veins to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Shackle hind legs of animals to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Shave or singe and defeather carcasses, and wash them in preparation for further processing or packaging.
- Skin sections of animals or whole animals.
- Slit open, eviscerate, and trim carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Stun animals prior to slaughtering.
- Tend assembly lines, performing a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass.
- Trim, clean, or cure animal hides.
- Trim head meat, and sever or remove parts of animals' heads or skulls.
- Wrap dressed carcasses or meat cuts.
Personality Strengths:
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Caution:
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Warning:
Likely negative impact as a result of your A3.
Potential Strength:
A characteristic you could perform competently, but may not come naturally.
PERSONALITY
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IMPORTANT STRENGTHS
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94% | Realistic - Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services. | |
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WORK VALUES
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56% | Relationships - Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. | |
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56% | Support - Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. | |
APTITUDES
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ABILITIES | SKILLS
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69% | 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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60% | 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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56% | 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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56% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |
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53% | Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |
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53% | Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |
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53% | 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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TASKS | ACTIVITIES
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68% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. | |
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64% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. | |
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64% | Performing General Physical Activities - Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. | |
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63% | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. | |
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60% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. | |
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57% | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. | |
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55% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. | |
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CONTEXT | ATTRIBUTES
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96% | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets - How often does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats or life-jackets? | |
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92% | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls - How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? | |
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89% | Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team - How important is it to work with or contribute to a work group or team in this job? | |
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84% | Spend Time Standing - How much does this job require standing? | |
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82% | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions - How much does this job require making repetitive motions? | |
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80% | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment - How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) | |
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79% | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled - How often does this job require working indoors in an environmentally controlled environment (like a warehouse with air conditioning)? | |
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78% | Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams - How frequently does your job require face-to-face discussions with individuals and within teams? | |
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73% | Contact With Others - How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? | |
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73% | Health and Safety of Other Workers - How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? | |
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73% | Physical Proximity - To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks physically close to other people? | |
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70% | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate - How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? | |
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66% | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings - How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? | |
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64% | Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities - How important is it to coordinate or lead others (not as a supervisor or team leader) in accomplishing work activities in this job? | |
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63% | Consequence of Error - How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not easily correctable? | |
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61% | Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals - How much freedom does the worker have in determining the tasks, priorities, or goals of the job? | |
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60% | Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers - How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? | |
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58% | Deal With External Customers or the Public in General - How important is it to deal with external customers (as in retail sales) or the public in general (as in police work) in this job? | |
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54% | Exposed to Very Hot or Cold Temperatures - How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? | |
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53% | Freedom to Make Decisions - How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? | |
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52% | Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body - How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? | |
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52% | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks - How important are continuous, repetitive, physical activities (like key entry) or mental activities (like checking entries in a ledger) to performing this job? | |
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51% | Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection - How often does this job require wearing specialized protective or safety equipment such as breathing apparatus, safety harness, full protection suits, or radiation protection? | |
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71% | Duration of Typical Work Week - Number of hours typically worked in one week. | |