According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications. | 93% |
| Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status. | 91% |
| Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers. | 89% |
| Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems. | 89% |
| Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications. | 89% |
| Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs. | 87% |
| Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results. | 87% |
| Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels. | 86% |
| Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances. | 86% |
| Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required. | 86% |
| Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary. | 85% |
| Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards. | 85% |
| Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments. | 85% |
| Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded. | 85% |
| Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results. | 84% |
| Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards. | 83% |
| Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges. | 82% |
| Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes. | 81% |
| Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment. | 81% |
| Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products. | 80% |
| Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners. | 80% |
| Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections. | 78% |
| Position products, components, or parts for testing. | 78% |
| Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces. | 78% |
| Compute usable amounts of items in shipments. | 76% |
| 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. | 76% |
| Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models. | 75% |
| Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications. | 74% |
| Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments. | 74% |
| Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators. | 74% |
| Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging. | 72% |
| Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities. | 70% |
