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Career Details :: Mechanical Inspectors
Description
Inspect and test mechanical assemblies and systems, such as motors, vehicles, and transportation equipment, for defects and wear to ensure compliance with specifications.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Completes necessary procedures to satisfy licensing requirements, and indicates concurrence with acceptance or rejection decisions.
- Reads dials and meters to ensure that equipment is operating according to specifications.
- Cleans and maintains test equipment and instruments to ensure proper functioning.
- Tests and measures finished products, components, or assemblies for functioning, operation, accuracy, or assembly to verify adherence to functional specifications.
- Installs and positions new or replacement parts, components, and instruments.
- Marks items for acceptance or rejection, records test results and inspection data, and compares findings with specifications to ensure conformance to standards.
- Starts and operates finished products for testing or inspection.
- Analyzes and interprets sample data.
- Reads and interprets materials, such as work orders, inspection manuals, and blueprints, to determine inspection and test procedures.
- Estimates and records operational data.
- Discards or rejects products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications.
- Confers with vendors and others regarding inspection results, recommends corrective procedures, and compiles reports of results, recommendations, and needed repairs.
- Collects samples for testing, and computes findings.
- Inspects materials, products, and work in progress for conformance to specifications, and adjusts process or assembly equipment to meet standards.
Related Careers
- Automotive Master Mechanics
- Combination Machine Tool Setters and Set-Up Operators, Metal and Plastic
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Machinists
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Materials Inspectors
- Mechanical Engineering Technicians
- Power Distributors and Dispatchers
- Precision Devices Inspectors and Testers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Evaluating Information Against Standards
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Degree of Automation
- Frustrating Circumstances
Related Majors
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| Aeronautics/Management | [ add ] |
| Aerospace Maintenance Engineering Technology | [ add ] |
| Aircraft Maintenance | [ add ] |
| Automotive Service Technology | [ add ] |
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