Job Description:

• 1) Trims meat, glands, and organs from carcass heads for use in making meat products or processing for medicinal use or byproducts, performing any combination of following tasks: Places head on table or in holding hooks and trims skin and meat from jaw, jowls, and skull with knife.

• 2) Cuts fat from lean meat and drops it into containers.

• 3) Inserts knife into mouth cavity to cut and remove tongue.

• 4) Trims fat, ragged edges, veins, and bruises from tongue.

• 5) Cuts and pulls hog snout from head, using knife and snout-pulling machine.

• 6) Pulls jaw from skull, using jaw pulling machine, bar, or chisel.

• 7) Places skull on block and splits it with automatic splitter or cleaver.

• 8) Removes brains, pituitary gland, and other parts, and places them in separate trays.

• 9) Removes horns from head, using shears.

• 10) May be known according to duty performed as Brain Picker; Chiseler, Head; Jawbone Breaker; Jowl Trimmer; Snout Puller; Splitter, Head; Temple-Meat Cutter; Tongue Cutter.