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Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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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