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Description Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

Alternate titles
  • Abrasive Grader
  • Acid Tester
  • Air Box Tester
  • Air Conditioning Unit Tester (AC Unit Tester)
  • Air Sampler
  • Air Value Tester
  • Aircraft Instrument Tester
  • Aircraft Launching and Arresting Systems Inspector
  • Aligning Inspector
  • Alloy Weigher
  • Aluminum Boat Inspector
  • Aluminum Container Tester
  • Ammunition Components Inspector
  • Ampoule Examiner
  • Ampoule Inspector
  • Argon Tester
  • Armature Inspector
  • Armature Tester
  • Artificial Teeth Inspector
  • Asbestos Shingle Inspector
Alternate titles
  • Assemblies and Installations Inspector
  • Assembly Adjuster
  • Assembly Inspector
  • Assembly Line Inspector
  • Assorter
  • Automatic Tire Tester
  • Automatic Typewriter Inspector
  • Automotive Tire Tester
  • Bad Cloth Checker
  • Bag Grader
  • Bag Sorter
  • Bag Tester
  • Balance Bridge Inspector
  • Balance Truer
  • Balance Truing Inspector
  • Balance Wheel Motion Inspector
  • Ball Points Inspector
  • Ballast Inspector
  • Ballpoint Pen Cartridge Tester
  • Barometers Calibrator
  • Barrel Assembly Inspector
  • Barrel Endshaker Adjuster
  • Barrel Inspector
  • Barrel Tester
  • Barrelhead Inspector
  • Baseball Inspector
  • Basket Grader
  • Basket Sorter
  • Batch Tester
  • Batch Weigher
  • Bath Tester
  • Battery Charger Tester
  • Battery Checker
  • Battery Container Tester
  • Battery Inspector
  • Battery Tester
  • Bead Inspector
  • Beaming Inspector
  • Bearing Inspector
  • Bellows Tester
  • Belt Picker
  • Belting and Webbing Inspector
  • Belting Inspector
  • Bench Assembly Inspector
  • Bicycle Inspector
  • Billet Examiner
  • Billet Inspector
  • Binder Selector
  • Binder Sorter
  • Biological Inspector
  • Bisque Grader
  • Blade Balancer
  • Blast Furnace Checker
  • Bleach Tester
  • Block Inspector
  • Block Sorter
  • Block Tester
  • Bobbin Inspector
  • Bobbin Sorter
  • Boiler House Inspector
  • Boiler Inspector
  • Bolt Sorter
  • Bone Picker
  • Bottle and Glass Inspector
  • Bottle Gauger
  • Bottle Inspector
  • Bottle Selector
  • Bottle Sorter
  • Bottle Tester
  • Bottled Beverage Inspector
  • Bowling Ball Grader
  • Bowling Ball Marker
  • Bowling Ball Weigher
  • Box Inspector
  • Box Sealing Inspector
  • Boxing Inspector
  • Brake Tester
  • Brass Sorter
  • Briar Wood Sorter
  • Brick Grader
  • Brick Picker
  • Brick Sorter
  • Brick Tester
  • Broomcorn Grader
  • Buckle Inspector
  • Buckle Sorter
  • Buffing Wheel Inspector
  • Buffing Wheel Raker
  • Bulb Inspector
  • Bulb Tester
  • Bullet Slugs Inspector
  • Burglar Alarm Inspector
  • Button Grader
  • Button Inspector
  • Cable Tester
  • Cake Tester
  • Calibration Checker
  • Calibration Tester
  • Calibrator
  • Can Inspector
  • Can Sorter
  • Can Vacuum Tester
  • Canned Food Reconditioning Inspector
  • Canoe Inspector
  • Capsule Inspector
  • Carbonation Tester
  • Carbonizer Tester
  • Card Checker
  • Cardroom Plastic Card Grader
  • Carpenter Inspector
  • Carpet Inspector
  • Carton Inspector
  • Cartridge Gauger
  • Casing Grader
  • Casing Inspector
  • Casing Material Weigher
  • Casket Inspector
  • Casting Inspector
  • Cell Inspector
  • Cell Tester
  • Certified Coatings Inspector
  • Certified Welding Inspector (CWI)
  • Chair Inspector
  • Chassis Inspector
  • Check Weigher
  • Checker
  • Cheese Grader
  • Chemical Checker
  • Chemical Inspector
  • Chemical Printed Circuit Board Component Tester
  • Chemical Strength Tester
  • Chip Tester
  • Chronometer Tester
  • Cigar Inspector
  • Cigarette and Filter Inspector
  • Cigarette Catcher
  • Cigarette Examiner
  • Cigarette Filter Inspector
  • Cigarette Inspector
  • Cigarette Making Machine Catcher
  • Cigarette Package Examiner
  • Cigarette Paper Tester
  • Cigarette Tester
  • Circuit Tester
  • Circuitry Negative Inspector
  • Circulating Process Inspector
  • Classer
  • Classifier
  • Clip-On Sunglasses Inspector
  • Cloth Checker
  • Cloth Examiner
  • Cloth Grader
  • Cloth Inspector
  • Cloth Measurer
  • Cloth Printing Inspector
  • Cloth Shrinking Tester
  • Cloth Stock Sorter
  • Clothing Examiner
  • Clutch Inspector
  • Coal Grader
  • Coal Inspector
  • Coal Sampler
  • Coating Inspector
  • Coatings Inspector
  • Coffee Weigher
  • Coil Inspector
  • Coil Tester
  • Coiled Coil Inspector
  • Coiler
  • Coke Inspector
  • Cold Roll Inspector
  • Cold Working Inspector
  • Collator
  • Color Checker
  • Color Tester
  • Color Weigher
  • Coloring Checker
  • Complaint Inspector
  • Compressed Gas Tester
  • Compressed Gases Tester
  • Computer Game Tester
  • Concrete Inspector
  • Condenser Tester
  • Cone Examiner
  • Construction and Maintenance Inspector
  • Container Finishing Inspector
  • Continuity Tester
  • Control Inspector
  • Control Panel Tester
  • Cooling Pipe Inspector
  • Copra Sampler
  • Core Checker
  • Core Inspector
  • Counter Tender
  • Cover Inspector
  • Crayon Grader
  • Crosstie Inspector
  • Crust Sorter
  • Crystal Inspector
  • Culler
  • Currency Examiner
  • Cutter Inspector
  • Cutting Inspector
  • Cylinder Inspector
  • Cylinder Tester
  • Decorating Inspector
  • Decoration Checker
  • Deicer Tester
  • Detector Operator
  • Dials Inspector
  • Diamond Sizer and Sorter
  • Die Inspector
  • Die Tester
  • Diesel Engine Tester
  • Diesel Inspector
  • Differential Tester
  • Disc Inspector
  • Dope Weigh Operator
  • Dowel Inspector
  • Drilling Inspector
  • Drop Tester
  • Drum Tester
  • Dry Cell Tester
  • Dry Cleaning Checker
  • Dry Goods Inspector
  • Dust Sampler
  • Dynamometer Tester
  • Eddy Current Inspector
  • Electric Container Tester
  • Electric Deicer Inspector
  • Electric Detector Operator
  • Electric Distribution Checker
  • Electric Meter Tester
  • Electric Motor Tester
  • Electric Relay Tester
  • Electrical Continuity Inspector
  • Electrical Continuity Tester
  • Electrical Equipment Tester
  • Electrical Inspector
  • Electrical Tester
  • Electromechanic Inspector
  • Electromechanical Inspector
  • Electronics Inspector
  • Electronics Scale Tester
  • Electronics Tester
  • Elevator Examiner
  • Elevator Examiner and Adjuster
  • Elevator Inspector
  • Engine Dynamometer Tester
  • Engine Tester
  • Equipment Inspector
  • Estimator
  • Exhaust Emissions Inspector
  • Experimental Test Mechanic
  • Eyeglass Frames Inspector
  • Eyeglass Inspector
  • Fabric Inspector
  • Fabrication Inspector
  • Fiberglass Product Tester
  • Fiberglass Quality Technician
  • Fibrous Wallboard Inspector
  • Field Inspector
  • Filament Tester
  • Film Flat Inspector
  • Film Inspector
  • Film Tests Checker
  • Film Touch-Up Inspector
  • Filter Tip Catcher
  • Filter Tip Inspector
  • Finished Carpet Inspector
  • Finished Cloth Examiner
  • Finished Stock Inspector
  • Finishing Inspector
  • Fire Alarm Inspector
  • Fire Extinguisher Tester
  • Firearms Inspector
  • Fireworks Inspector
  • Flasher Adjuster
  • Flat Examiner
  • Flatwork Tier
  • Floor Inspector
  • Food Taster
  • Force-Variation Equipment Tender
  • Formation Testing Operator
  • Forming Department End Finder
  • Forming Tube Selector
  • Formula Weigher
  • Fountain Pen Nibs Inspector
  • Fresh Work Inspector
  • Fretted Instrument Inspector
  • Fretted Instruments Inspector
  • Fuel Testing Technician
  • Fuel Verification Technician
  • Fur Examiner
  • Fur Grader
  • Fur Repair Inspector
  • Fur Sorter
  • Furnace Combustion Tester
  • Furnace Stock Inspector
  • Furniture Decals Inspector
  • Furniture Inspector
  • Garment Examiner
  • Garment Inspector
  • Gas Leak Inspector
  • Gas Leak Tester
  • Gas Mask Inspector
  • Gas Meter Checker
  • Gas Tester
  • Gasket Inspector
  • Gauge and Instrument Inspector
  • Gauge and Weigh Machine Operator
  • Gauge Inspector
  • Gauger
  • Gear Inspector
  • Gear Sorting and Inspecting Machine Operator
  • Gear Tester
  • Glass Checker
  • Glass Inspector
  • Glass Selector
  • Glassware Selector
  • Globe Tester
  • Glove Examiner
  • Glove Pairer
  • Glove Parts Inspector
  • Glucose and Syrup Weigher
  • Glued Wood Tester
  • Golf Ball Inspector
  • Golf Club Head Adjuster
  • Golf Club Head Inspector
  • Golf Club Weigher
  • Gravel Inspector
  • Green Inspector
  • Green Tire Inspector
  • Grey Goods Examiner
  • Grinding Wheel Inspector
  • Gun Examiner
  • Hairspring Adjuster
  • Hairspring Inspector
  • Hairspring Truer
  • Hairspring Truing Inspector
  • Hand Cloth Examiner
  • Hand Collator
  • Hand Counter
  • Handbag Frames Inspector
  • Hardness Inspector
  • Hardness Tester
  • Harness and Bag Inspector
  • Harness Inspector
  • Harness Puller
  • Hat Body Sorter
  • Heat Reader
  • Heat Treat Inspector
  • Heel Sorter
  • Hide Inspector
  • Hide Inspector and Sorter
  • Hides Inspector
  • Hogshead Inspector
  • Hogshead Mat Inspector
  • Hooker Inspector
  • Hop Weigher
  • Hose Inspector
  • Hosiery Mater
  • Hosiery Pairer
  • House Piping Inspector
  • Hull Inspector
  • Hydraulic Tester
  • Hydro-Pneumatic Tester
  • Hydrometer Calibrator
  • Hydrometer Tester
  • Hypoid Gear Tester
  • Inclinometer Tester
  • Incoming Inspector
  • Ingredient Scaler
  • Inked Ribbons Quality Control Technician (Inked Ribbons QC Tech)
  • Inspection Clerk
  • Inspector
  • Installations Inspector
  • Instrument Checker
  • Instrument Inspector
  • Insulation Inspector
  • Insulator Tester
  • Integrated Circuits Inspector
  • Internal Combustion Engine Inspector
  • Iron Assorter
  • Jet Inspector
  • Jewel Gauger
  • Jewel Inspector
  • Jewelry Inspector
  • Jig Inspector
  • Job Estimator
  • Kiln Tester
  • Klystrom Tube Tester
  • Knitting Tester
  • Kosher Inspector
  • Laboratory Sample Carrier
  • Laboratory Tester
  • Lamp Inspector
  • Lamp Tester
  • Layout Inspection Quality Control Worker (Layout Inspection QC Worker)
  • Layout Inspector
  • Leak Detector
  • Leak Hunter
  • Leak Inspector
  • Leakage Tester
  • Leather Grader
  • Leather Parts Matcher
  • Leather Sorter
  • Lens Blank Gauger
  • Lens Block Gauger
  • Lens Examiner
  • Lens Gauger
  • Lens Inspector
  • Lens Matcher
  • Level Vial Curvature Gauger
  • Level Vial Inspector
  • Level Vial Tester
  • Lightout Examiner
  • Line Assembly Utility Worker
  • Line Inspector
  • Line Rider
  • Line Walker
  • Line-Up Examiner
  • Linen Checker
  • Linen Grader
  • Liner Checker
  • Liquor Inspector
  • Liquor Tester
  • Lithographed Plate Inspector
  • Live Ammunition Inspector
  • Load Checker
  • Load Tester
  • Load-Test Mechanic
  • Location and Measurement Technician
  • Locks Inspector
  • Locomotive Inspector
  • Loom Checker
  • Lump Inspector
  • Machine Cloth Examiner
  • Machine Inspector
  • Machine Parts Inspector
  • Machine Shop Inspector
  • Machine Tester
  • Machine Try Out Setter
  • Machined Parts Quality Inspector
  • Magnetic Particle and Penetrant Inspector
  • Magnetic Tester
  • Maintenance Inspector
  • Major Assembly Inspector
  • Marine Equipment Preservation Inspector
  • Masonry Inspector
  • Mat Inspector
  • Mat Tester
  • Material Disposition Inspector
  • Material Inspector
  • Materials Inspector
  • Matrix Inspector
  • Measurer
  • Mechanical Inspector
  • Mechanical Test Technician
  • Mechanism Inspector
  • Mercury Cracking Tester
  • Metal Can Inspector
  • Metal Control Worker
  • Metal Fabricate Inspector
  • Metal Fabricating Inspector
  • Metal Finish Inspector
  • Meter Calibrator
  • Meter Inspector
  • Meter Tester
  • Mica Inspector
  • Mica Patcher
  • Microfilm Equipment Inspector
  • Mirror Inspector
  • Missile Inspector
  • Moisture Meter Operator
  • Moisture Meter Reader
  • Moisture Tester
  • Mold Inspector
  • Molded Goods Spot Picker
  • Molded Parts Inspector
  • Money Examiner
  • Motor and Chassis Inspector
  • Motor and Controls Tester
  • Motor Tester
  • Motorcycle Tester
  • Motors and Controls Tester
  • Motors and Generators Inspector
  • Movement Assembly Final Inspector
  • Multifocal Lens Inspector
  • Needle Grader
  • Netting Inspector
  • Nib Inspector
  • Night Patrol Inspector
  • Noise Tester
  • Nut Sorter
  • Odd Shoe Examiner
  • Office Machine Components Inspector
  • Oil Filters Inspector
  • Oil Inspector
  • Oil Pipe Inspector
  • Olive Brine Tester
  • Open Die Inspector
  • Operational Test Mechanic
  • Optical Glass Inspector
  • Optical Glass Wet Inspector
  • Optical Instrument Inspector
  • Ore Grader
  • Ore Sampler
  • Outboard Motor Inspector
  • Outside Product Inspector
  • Outside Production Inspector
  • Oxygen System Tester
  • Packaging Materials Inspector
  • Paint Spray Inspector
  • Pairer
  • Paper Cone Grader
  • Paper Counter
  • Paper Final Inspector
  • Paper Grader
  • Paper Inspector
  • Paper Pattern Inspector
  • Paper Products Inspector
  • Paper Sorter
  • Paper Sorter and Counter
  • Parachute Inspector
  • Parts Inspector
  • Passer
  • Pasting Inspector
  • Patch Driller
  • Patch Finisher
  • Patcher
  • Patroller
  • Pattern Checker
  • Pattern Lease Inspector
  • PBX Inspector (Private Branch Exchange Inspector)
  • Peeled Potato Inspector
  • Pencil Inspector
  • Petroleum Inspector
  • Petroleum Sampler
  • Photo Checker
  • Photo Mask Inspector
  • Photographic Equipment Inspector
  • Pick Up Operator
  • Pickle Sorter
  • Picture Frames Inspector
  • Piece Work Inspector
  • Pinion and Wheel Truer
  • Pinion Sorter
  • Pipe Inspector
  • Pipe Line Inspector
  • Pipe Line Walker
  • Pipe Tester
  • Plant Inspector
  • Plastics and Composites Inspector
  • Plate Gauger
  • Plate Inspector
  • Plating Inspector
  • Plug Sorter
  • Plywood Stock Grader
  • Pneumatic Deicer Inspector
  • Poising Inspector
  • Polarity Tester
  • Pole Inspector
  • Potato Chip Sorter
  • Potline Monitor
  • Powder Core Tester
  • Power Checker
  • Power Plant Inspector
  • Power Transformer Inspector
  • Pre-Assembly Printed Circuit Board Component Tester
  • Pre-Assembly Printed Circuit Board Inspector
  • Precision Assembly Inspector
  • Precision Devices Inspector
  • Precision Devices Tester
  • Precision Inspector
  • Press Pipe Inspector
  • Pressure Test Operator
  • Pressure Tester
  • Pressure Tester Operator
  • Primer Inspector
  • Print Inspector
  • Print Line Inspector
  • Printed Circuit Board Assembly Touch-Up Screener
  • Printed Circuit Boards Inspector
  • Process Checker
  • Process Controller
  • Process Inspector
  • Processing Inspector
  • Processor Inspector
  • Procurement Inspector
  • Product Tester
  • Production Grader
  • Production Inspector
  • Production Sampler
  • Production Sorter
  • Production Tester
  • Production Weigher
  • Proof Coins Inspector
  • Proof Inspector
  • Proof Technician
  • Propeller Inspector
  • Propeller Tester
  • Publications Inspector
  • Pulp and Paper Tester
  • Pulp Tester
  • Pump Tester
  • Pyrometer Temperature Regulator
  • QA Analyst (Quality Assurance Analyst)
  • QA Associate (Quality Assurance Associate)
  • QA Auditor (Quality Assurance Auditor)
  • QA Inspector (Quality Assurance Inspector)
  • QA Technician (Quality Assurance Technician)
  • QC Auditor (Quality Control Auditor)
  • QC Technician (Quality Control Technician)
  • QC Tester (Quality Control Tester)
  • Quality Assurance Clerk (QA Clerk)
  • Quality Assurance Monitor (QA Monitor)
  • Quality Assurance Specialist (QA Specialist)
  • Quality Assurance Tester (QA Tester)
  • Quality Auditor
  • Quality Checker
  • Quality Cloth Tester
  • Quality Control Checker (QC Checker)
  • Quality Control Inspector (QC Inspector)
  • Quality Inspector
  • Quality Specialist
  • Quality Technician
  • Quality Tester
  • Quartz Orientator
  • Quill Buncher and Sorter
  • Rack Puncher
  • Radar Tester
  • Radiator Core Tester
  • Radio Tester
  • Rag Inspector
  • Rag Picker
  • Rag Sorter
  • Railroad Wheels and Axle Inspector
  • Raw Juice Weigher
  • Raw Sampler
  • Raw Silk Grader
  • Re-Examiner
  • Receiving Inspector
  • Record Changer Tester
  • Record Tester
  • Refrigeration Service Inspector
  • Refrigerator Tester
  • Regrader
  • Regulator Inspector
  • Regulator Tester
  • Reinspector
  • Reject Opener
  • Rejector
  • Relay Tester
  • Remnant Sorter
  • Resistor Testing Machine Operator
  • Returned Goods Sorter
  • Returned Materials Inspector
  • Ring Sorter
  • Rivet Sorter
  • Road Machinery Inspector
  • Road Tester
  • Roadability Machine Operator
  • Rocket Engine Tester
  • Rocket Motor Tester
  • Roll Examiner
  • Roll Inspector
  • Roll Tension Tester
  • Roller Bearing Inspector
  • Roller Checker
  • Roller Inspector
  • Roofing Tile Sorter
  • Rotor Balancer
  • Rough Rib Grader
  • Rough Rice Grader
  • Roving Color Checker
  • Roving Inspector
  • Roving Sizer
  • Roving Weight Gauger
  • Rubber Goods Inspector
  • Rubber Goods Tester
  • Rubber Stamp Dies Inspector
  • Rubber Tester
  • Rug Inspector
  • Safety Equipment Tester
  • Salvage Inspector
  • Sample Collector
  • Sample Color Maker
  • Sample Examiner
  • Sample Grader
  • Sample Maker
  • Sample Selector
  • Sample Tester
  • Sample Washer
  • Sampler
  • Sampler Tester
  • Sand Tester
  • Sausage Inspector
  • Scale Balancer
  • Scale Operator
  • Scale Tester
  • Scaler
  • Scales Inspector
  • Scrap Separator
  • Scrap Sorter
  • Screen Printing Inspector
  • Seconds Handler
  • Selector
  • Semiconductor Packages Leak Tester
  • Semiconductor Packages Tester
  • Semiconductor Wafer Inspector
  • Semiconductor Wafer Processing Inspector
  • Semiconductor Wafers Tester
  • Sensitized Paper Tester
  • Separator
  • Service Inspector
  • Set Up Inspector
  • Set-Up and Lay-Out Inspector
  • Sewer Inspector
  • Sewing Machine Tester
  • Shadowgraph Operator
  • Shadowgraph Scale Operator
  • Shaker Plate Operator
  • Shank Inspector
  • Shell Grader
  • Shells Inspector
  • Shingle Grader
  • Shingle Inspector
  • Shipping Inspector
  • Shot Examiner
  • Shuttle Final Inspector
  • Shuttle Inspector
  • Signal Tester
  • Sizer
  • Skin Grader
  • Slide Fasteners Inspector
  • Snuff Container Inspector
  • Soap Inspector
  • Soldering Inspector
  • Sorter
  • Sorter Operator
  • Sorting Machine Operator
  • Sound Tester
  • Spark Plug Tester
  • Spark Tester
  • Special Tester
  • Speedometer Inspector
  • Spindle Tester
  • Spoilage Worker
  • Spool Sorter
  • Spot Checker
  • Spotter
  • Spring Inspector
  • Spring Tester
  • Static Balancer
  • Stave Grader
  • Steel Inspector
  • Steel Sampler
  • Stencil Inspector
  • Stock Parts Inspector
  • Stock Sorter
  • Stocking Inspector
  • Stone Grader
  • Storage Battery Inspector
  • Storage Battery Inspector and Tester
  • Storage Battery Tester
  • Stummel Selector
  • Substation Inspector
  • Sumatra Opener
  • Surgical Garment Inspector
  • Surgical Instruments Inspector
  • Surveillance Inspector
  • Swatch Checker
  • Switch Inspector
  • Switchboard Inspector
  • Tablet Tester
  • Tank Car Inspector
  • Tank Tester
  • Targeteer
  • Taster
  • Tea Taster
  • Telegraph Inspector
  • Television Inspector
  • Television Parts Tester
  • Temperature Control Inspector
  • Temperature Inspector
  • Temperature Regulator
  • Template Checker
  • Test Car Driver
  • Test Carrier
  • Test Desk Trouble Locator
  • Test Driver
  • Test Preparer
  • Test Technician
  • Test Worker
  • Tester
  • Tester Operator
  • Testing and Regulating Technician
  • Testing Machine Operator
  • Texturing Process Quality Control Checker (Texturing Process QC Checker)
  • Thermocouple Tester
  • Thermometer Tester
  • Thread Checker
  • Thread Inspector
  • Tie Inspector
  • Tight Barrel Inspector
  • Tile Grader
  • Tile Picker
  • Tile Shader
  • Tile Sorter
  • Timber Inspector
  • Time Clock Inspector
  • Timer
  • Timers Inspector
  • Timing Inspector
  • Tin Assorter
  • Tin Flipper
  • Tin Flopper
  • Tip Length Checker
  • Tire Balancer
  • Tire Classifier
  • Tire Inspector
  • Tire Mold Tester
  • Tire Sorter
  • Tire Tester
  • Tobacco Classer
  • Tobacco Grader
  • Tobacco Sample Puller
  • Tobacco Sampler
  • Toll Line Inspector
  • Tool and Die Making Setup and Layout Inspector
  • Tool Inspector
  • Tooth Inspector
  • Torque Tester
  • Towel Inspector
  • Towel Sorter
  • Toys Inspector
  • Transformer Tester
  • Transistor Tester
  • Transmission Inspector
  • Transmission Tester
  • Treating Inspector
  • Triple Air-Valve Tester
  • Trouble Locater
  • Trouble Shooter
  • Truck Trailer Final Inspector
  • Try Out Person
  • Tube Inspector
  • Tube Sorter
  • Tube Tester
  • Twist Tester
  • Type Inspector
  • Typewriter Assembly and Parts Inspector
  • Typewriter Tester
  • Ultrasonic Tester
  • Upholstery Covers Inspector
  • Upholstery Parts Sorter
  • Upper Leather Sorter
  • Utilities Service Investigator
  • Valve Tester
  • Varnish Inspector
  • Veneer Grader
  • Veneer Matcher
  • Veneer Measurer
  • Veneer Stock Grader
  • Vibrator Equipment Tester
  • Viscosity Tester
  • Voltage Tester
  • Wafer Substrate Tester
  • Wallpaper Inspector
  • Wallpaper Inspector and Shipper
  • Ware Tester
  • Warp Tester
  • Warp Yarn Sorter
  • Waste Disposal Leakage Tester
  • Waste Examiner
  • Waste Salvager
  • Watch Assembly Inspector
  • Watch Parts Inspector
  • Watch Train Inspector
  • Water Quality Tester
  • Weaving Inspector
  • Webbing Inspector
  • Weigh Machine Operator
  • Weigh Tank Operator
  • Weigher
  • Weigher Operator
  • Weight Tester
  • Weight Yardage Checker
  • Weld Inspector
  • Welding Inspector
  • Wheel and Pinion Inspector
  • Wheel Inspector
  • Winding Inspector
  • Winding Inspector and Tester
  • Wire Inspector
  • Wire Products Inspector
  • Wire Tester
  • Wood Inspector
  • Wood Scaler
  • Wood Treating Inspector
  • Woodwind Instruments Inspector
  • Woodwork Salvage Inspector
  • Woodworking Grader
  • Wrap Yarn Sorter
  • Wrapper Counter
  • Wrapper Selector
  • Wrapping Checker
  • Wreath Inspector
  • X-Ray Equipment Tester
  • X-Ray Inspector
  • Yard Inspector
  • Yarn Color Checker
  • Yarn Examiner
  • Yarn Skeins Examiner
  • Yarn Sorter
  • Yield Loss Inspector
  • Yield-Loss Inspector
  • Zyglo Inspector
  • Zyglo Technician
Average hourly wage $18.61 - $29.08 ($38,710.00 - $60,490.00 annually)*
Annual total openings152
Total number employed1,571

A day in the life

  • Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
  • Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
  • Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Work activities
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
  • Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
  • Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
  • Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
  • Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
  • Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
  • Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
  • Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
  • Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
  • Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
  • Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
  • Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
  • Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
  • Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
  • Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
  • Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
  • Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
  • Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
  • Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
  • Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
  • Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
  • Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
  • Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
  • Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
  • Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
  • Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
  • Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
  • Communicating with People Outside the Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
  • Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
  • Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
  • Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
  • Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
  • Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
  • Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
  • Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
Work styles
  • Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
  • Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
  • Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
  • Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
  • Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
  • Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
  • Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
  • Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
  • Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
  • Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
  • Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
  • Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
  • Support: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
  • Relationships: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
  • Working Conditions: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Work values
  • Achievement: Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
  • Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
  • Recognition: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
  • Realistic: Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
  • Conventional: Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
  • Investigative: Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.
Work interests
  • Enterprising: Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
  • Artistic: Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.
  • Social: Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.
  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
  • Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.
Work tasks
  • 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.
  • Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.
  • Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.
  • Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.
  • Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.
  • 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.
  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.
  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.
  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.
  • Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.
  • Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.
  • 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.
  • Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.
  • Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.
  • Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.
  • Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.
  • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.
  • Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.
  • Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.
  • Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.
  • Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.
  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.
  • Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.
  • Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.
  • Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.
  • Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  • English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
  • Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Work knowledge
  • Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  • Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  • Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
  • Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  • Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  • Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  • Physics: Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
  • Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  • Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
  • Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  • Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • Foreign Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  • Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  • Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  • Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  • Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  • History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  • Philosophy and Theology: Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  • Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
  • Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
  • Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
  • Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Work abilities
  • Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
  • Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
  • Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
  • Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
  • Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
  • Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
  • Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
  • Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
  • Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
  • Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
  • Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
  • Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
  • Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
  • Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
  • Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
  • Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
  • Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
  • Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
  • Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
  • Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
  • Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
  • Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
  • Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
  • Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
  • Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
  • Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
  • Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
  • Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
  • Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
  • Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
  • Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
  • Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
  • Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
  • Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
  • Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
  • Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
  • Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
  • Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
  • Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
  • Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
  • Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
  • Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
  • Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
  • Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
  • Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
  • Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
  • Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Work skills
  • Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
  • Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
  • Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
  • Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
  • Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
  • Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
  • Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
  • Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
  • Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
  • Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
  • Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
  • Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
  • Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
  • Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
  • Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
  • Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
  • Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
  • Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.

Education & Training

Education High school diploma or equivalent

Licensing Some professions require a specific license to work in Maine. For information on any licensing requirements for this and other occupations, visit the Maine Office of Professional and Financial Regulation.

Training Moderate-term on-the-job training

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Regional Occupation Data

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Total number employed 1,571
Average annual wage* $38,710 - $60,490
Annual total openings 152
Average hourly wage* $18.61 - $29.08
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Total number employed 393
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Annual total openings 39
Average hourly wage* $18.03 - $28.38
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