- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who feeds animal intestines into machine rollers that prepares them for use as sausage casings. Respnsibilities include:
* Soaks intestines in vats of warm water to loosen waste matter and deposits.
* Separates soaked intestines and removes loosened matter.
* Feeds intestines between crushing and finishing rolls that strip (squeezes out) lime, fat, and mucus, and roll casing into shape.
* Measures and ties casings into bundles, and packs bundles in salt for shipment.
* Unpacks cured casings and soaks them for subsequent processing into sausage casings.
* May clean and flush animal stomachs for use as casings.
* May adjust tension on machine rollers.
* May be designated according to function performed as Casing Packer; Casing Soaker; or machine tended as Casing-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who guides dehaired hogs from stationary rail to moving chain conveyor.
* Lifts first stop bar to allow specified number of dehaired hogs to roll along suspended rail to second stop bar and then lowers bar.
* Lifts second stop bar and pushes specified number of hogs into moving chain conveyor.
* May remove empty gambrels (hog-suspended attachments) from hogs and place them on return conveyor.
* May be designated according to type of conveyor loaded as Cooler-Conveyor Loader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds machines that automatically pull snouts or jawbones from hog heads and split heads to prepare meat for further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts jawbone joints and sides and front of snout to prepare parts for pulling process, using knife.
* Positions and holds head on bed of automatic machines to pull snout or jawbone from head or to split head in half.
* May trim cheek meat from head with knife subsequent to removal of jawbone.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds machine that skins pork pieces, such as fatbacks, jowls, hams, and bacon, preparatory to curing. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns crank to raise or lower knife according to thickness of meat.
* Places unskinned piece on conveyor that moves it under machine knife that skins meat.
* Trims remaining skin fragments with knife.
* May skin pork by hand, using drawknife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who eviscerates cattle, hogs, lambs, and small animals, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Slits body cavity of carcass, reaches inside abdominal cavity and cuts membranes holding intestines.
* Inserts spiral rod in gullet to sever gullet and windpipe from other neck tissue.
* Cuts bung from intestines and ties intestines, bladder, bung, and gullet to prevent leakage of contents.
* Pulls intestines from carcass, trims off fat, and dumps them into gut truck or conveyor pan.
* Cuts out glands, ovaries, sweetbreads, liver, heart, lungs, kidneys, spleen, and spermatic cord, places them on conveyor, in containers, or throws them down chute.
* Cuts bruises, blemishes, and ragged tissue from carcass.
* Cuts skin from tail to shoulders to bisect carcass.
* Severs head from carcass.
* May wash viscera and carcass, using hose.
* Patches leaks in intestines, using skewer.
* May break and bind hoofs of lambs or sheep.
* May be designated according to function performed as bruise trimmer; leak patcher; weasand rodder; or part of animal eviscerated as belly opener; bung dropper; bung-gut tier.
* May be designated: caul-fat puller; gut puller; gut sorter; leaf-fat scraper; rabbit dresser.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who eviscerates cattle, hogs, lambs, and small animals, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Slits body cavity of carcass, reaches inside abdominal cavity and cuts membranes holding intestines.
* Inserts spiral rod in gullet to sever gullet and windpipe from other neck tissue.
* Cuts bung from intestines and ties intestines, bladder, bung, and gullet to prevent leakage of contents.
* Pulls intestines from carcass, trims off fat, and dumps them into gut truck or conveyor pan.
* Cuts out glands, ovaries, sweetbreads, liver, heart, lungs, kidneys, spleen, and spermatic cord, places them on conveyor, in containers, or throws them down chute.
* Cuts bruises, blemishes, and ragged tissue from carcass.
* Cuts skin from tail to shoulders to bisect carcass.
* Severs head from carcass.
* May wash viscera and carcass, using hose.
* Patches leaks in intestines, using skewer.
* May break and bind hoofs of lambs or sheep.
* May be designated according to function performed as bruise trimmer; leak patcher; weasand rodder; or part of animal eviscerated as belly opener; bung dropper; bung-gut tier.
* May be designated: caul-fat puller; gut puller; gut sorter; leaf-fat scraper; rabbit dresser.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who slits cured intestines lengthwise, using knife.
* Presses intestines flat and stacks them in piles for subsequent production of surgical sutures and violin and tennis racket strings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pulls spreads (metal rods inserted in breast of hog halves to separate parts and allow circulation of air) from breast of suspended hog halves preparatory to storage in cooling room.
* Drops spreads into barrel.
* Pushes halves along overhead monorail to chain conveyor which carries halves into cooler.
* May count and record number of halves processed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stores and prepares dressed meat for further processing or shipment, performing any combination of tasks in cooler room of slaughtering plant. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines carcasses to determine condition of meat, such as hardness, softness, and oiliness prior to cutting.
* Records information on inspection tag.
* Weighs carcass on conveyor scale and records weight on production sheet.
* Trims excess fat from meat, using knife.
* Cuts carcasses into quarters, using knife and meat saw.
* Stamps predetermined grade on meat, using rubber stamp, and attaches date tags.
* Brands carcasses and meat products with electric iron.
* Pushes carcasses, or meat cuts, suspended from conveyor, from killing and dressing floor to cooler room or between departments.
* Separates cuts of meat according to weight, and grade.
* Pushes truck, filled with pieces of meat, glands, and organs, into cooling room and places them in pans or hangs them on racks.
* Transports containers of tallow to cooler room and other departments, using handtruck.
* Carries meat from shipping platform and loads it into delivery truck.
* Places trolleys on conveyor rails, and cleans and greases rails.
* Washes floor and containers with hose and shovels fresh sawdust onto floor.
* May shroud carcasses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cures meat products, such as pork, ham, bacon, or casings preparatory to smoking. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes sacks of such materials as sugar, sodium nitrate, and salt to curing room, using handtruck or cart.
* Weighs out specified amounts of materials and mixes them by hand or in mixing machine.
* Packs and arranges meat in boxes, vats, tierces, or piles, and sprinkles mixture over each layer.
* Sweeps excess mixture from meat with broom.
* Rearranges layers after specified time to circulate air around meat.
* Dips ham hocks in brine solution, sprinkles soda on them, and hangs them on rack for curing.
* May be designated according to product cured as belly packer; casing salter; ham-hock mopper; salt-bellies overhauler.
Industry:Professional careers
