🤖 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 “Pole Inspector” 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%

“Pole Inspector” 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%

“Pole Inspector” 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 usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles