🤖 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 “Rocket Engine Tester” 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%

“Rocket Engine Tester” 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%

“Rocket Engine Tester” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles