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Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.
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Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.
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Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.
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Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.
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Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.
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Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.
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Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.
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Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.
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Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.
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Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.
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Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.
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Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.
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Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.
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Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
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Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.
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Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.
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Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.
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Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.
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Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.
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Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.
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Position products, components, or parts for testing.
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Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.
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Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.
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Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.
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Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.
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Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.
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Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.
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Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.
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Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.
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Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.
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Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.