🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Brick Grader” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Brick Grader” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 56% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

54%

“Brick Grader” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 54% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: 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.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,670
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.84
Available Jobs (US) 591,180
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers #51-9061
Wage vs. National Median
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

  • Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.

  • Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.

  • Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.

  • 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.

  • Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.

  • Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.

  • Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.

  • Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.

  • Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.

  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.

  • Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.

  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.

  • Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.

  • Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.

  • Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.

  • Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.

  • Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.

  • Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.

  • Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.

  • Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.

  • Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.

  • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.

Technologies & Software

  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Apache Hive
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Apache Pig
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • R
  • Database software
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • SAP software
  • DeepSeek
  • IBM Notes
  • Mastercam Design
  • Data entry software
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Data analysis software
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Selenium
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Inspection marking systems
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Structured query language SQL
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Minitab
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Skype
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Label inspection systems
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Viscometers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Plug gauges
  • Shock testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Compression testers
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Impact hammers
  • Function generators
  • Beta gauges
  • Resistivity meters
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • In-circuit testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Overhead cranes
  • Digital multimeters
  • Frequency counters
  • Optical comparators
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Optical gauges
  • Force transducers
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Fatigue testers
  • Resistance meters
  • Ductility testers
  • Tensile testers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Environmental chambers
  • Pi tapes
  • Accelerometers
  • Plotters
  • Backplane testers
  • Micrometers
  • Ammeters
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Frequency meters
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Personal computers
  • Hardness testers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Color spectrometers
  • Continuity testers
  • Hipot testers
  • Height gauges
  • Moisture meters
  • Pulse generators
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Conductivity meters
  • Logic test systems
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Signal generators
  • Depth gauges
  • Thread gauges
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Power meters
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Sorting machines
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Forklifts
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Shear testers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Calipers
  • Strain gauges
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Gloss meters
  • Pin gauges
  • Multimeters

Alternative Job Titles