- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who prepares smoked meat for packing and further processing, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes specified smoked meats from bins and racks, and places them on conveyor leading to packing room.
* Wipes salt and moisture from smoked hams.
* Inserts hooks in smoked meats and hangs them on racks for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares sheep pelts for removal of wool. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions pelt on table, hair side down, and brushes depilatory solution on pelt to loosen wool.
* Folds pelt and hangs it on hook to dry.
* Loads handtruck with dried pelts and pushes it to wool puller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts, scrapes and pulls meat from cooked poultry carcasses, using fingers and boning knife. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls wings and drumsticks from carcasses.
* Cuts along each side of breast plate, using knife, and peels meat from breast, using hands.
* Pulls and scrapes meat from rest of carcass, using knife and hands.
* Segregates light and dark meat into separate piles.
* Discards wastes, such as skin, bones, and gristle, into waste containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who slaughters and dresses fowl in preparation for marketing, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Chops off bird's head or slits bird's throat to slaughter bird, using knife.
* Hangs bird by feet to drain blood.
* Dips bird into scalding water to loosen feathers.
* Holds bird against projecting rubber fingers of rotating drum to remove feathers.
* Cuts bird open, removes viscera, and washes bird and giblets.
* May pluck chickens by hand.
* May be designated according to type of fowl dressed as Chicken Dresser; Turkey Dresser.
* May be known according to specific duties performed as Poultry Picker; Poultry Scalder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who slaughters and dresses fowl in preparation for marketing, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Chops off bird's head or slits bird's throat to slaughter bird, using knife.
* Hangs bird by feet to drain blood.
* Dips bird into scalding water to loosen feathers.
* Holds bird against projecting rubber fingers of rotating drum to remove feathers.
* Cuts bird open, removes viscera, and washes bird and giblets.
* May pluck chickens by hand.
* May be designated according to type of fowl dressed as Chicken Dresser; Turkey Dresser.
* May be known according to specific duties performed as Poultry Picker; Poultry Scalder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who butchers and processes poultry performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Severs legs at first joint, using knife, and drops legs into container.
* Slits breast skin, removes crop, and places crop on conveyor.
* Removes oil sack and slits abdominal wall with knife.
* Grasps carcass with hands, opens abdominal cavity, and pulls out viscera.
* Separates and washes liver, heart, and viscera and drops them into trays.
* Cuts around anus to remove remaining viscera and drops it onto conveyor.
* Holds gizzard over machine rollers to remove skin and drops it into washer.
* Trims fat from giblet meat with knife and places meat and fat in trays.
* May be designated according to part of poultry processed as Foot Cutter; Gizzard-Skin Remover; or kind of poultry cleaned as Chicken Cleaner; Turkey Cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shackles and suspends live or slaughtered poultry from conveyor for killing, scalding, removal of feathers or cleaning.
* Removes live poultry from shipping crates, or picks up slaughtered birds from platforms and chilling vats and hangs them by feet, neck, or wings on shackles of conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs, wraps, and prepares poultry for shipment or storage, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads dressed poultry into carts in layers, and shovels ice between layers to prevent spoilage.
* Pushes filled cart to and from cold storage room.
* Wraps dressed poultry in paper and packs it in shipping container.
* Weighs poultry and marks weight on container.
* May shovel ice into cooling machines.
* May load trucks.
* May wrap heads of poultry in paper.
* May remove crops with knife and sew eviscerated poultry, using needle and twine.
* May hang or stack cases of dressed poultry in cold storage room.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who chains hind legs of stunned animals, such as cattle, sheep, and hogs, to hoist or conveyor that suspends animals for slaughtering process.
* May place trolley hooks or gamb stick in leg tendon of animal to raise them.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who chains hind legs of stunned animals, such as cattle, sheep, and hogs, to hoist or conveyor that suspends animals for slaughtering process.
* May place trolley hooks or gamb stick in leg tendon of animal to raise them.
Industry:Professional careers
