🤖 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 “Scrap Separator” 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%

“Scrap Separator” 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%

“Scrap Separator” 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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles