
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Typical job duties performed with this occupation include:
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Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment. |
Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments. |
Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities. |
Compute usable amounts of items in shipments. |
Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products. |
Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments. |
Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging. |
Position products, components, or parts for testing. |
Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators. |
Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary. |
Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges. |
Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results. |
Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems. |
Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required. |
Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards. |
Inspect or test cleantech or green technology parts, products, or installations, such as fuel cells, solar panels, or air quality devices, for conformance to specifications or standards. |
Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners. |
Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications. |
Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces. |
Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels. |
Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs. |
Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results. |
Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status. |
Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications. |
Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications. |
Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded. |
Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers. |
Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances. |
Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes. |
Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards. |
Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models. |
Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections. |
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Training for this occupational program or those in a similar family of programs can be located at the following postsecondary institutions in the State of Kansas. Please check with a program advisor at the postsecondary institution for more information on the particular focus of each program listed. Programs nearest the local area appear first. Click on the program to find more information.
INSTITUTION NAME | CITY | INSTITUTION TYPE | PROGRAM TITLE | AWARDS | HOURS |
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Barton Community College | Great Bend | Public | SCALE TECHNICIAN | Less Than One-year Technical Certificate - CERT | 27 |