Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers — Tasks

Task statements

• Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.
• Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.
• Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
• Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.
• Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
• Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.
• Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.
• Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.
• Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.
• Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.
• Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.
• Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.
• Position products, components, or parts for testing.
• Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.
• Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.
• Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.
• Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.
• Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.
• Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.
• Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.
• Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.
• Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.
• Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.
• Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.
• Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.
• Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.
• Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.
• Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.
• Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.
• Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.
• Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.