Product graders and testers (except foods and beverages) inspect , test, sort, sample, and weigh raw materials, manufactured components and non-comestible goods produced or sold, to ensure compliance with quality standards and to identify defects, wear, and deviations from specifications, and to grade and classify them according to their quality.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
Salary Check
- Product grader or tester (not in foods and beverages)
- Quality inspector agricultural products
- Quality inspector cattle, meat, fish
- Quality inspector clothing, leatherwear
- Quality inspector computer equipment
- Quality inspector electrical equipment or eletronic components
- Quality inspector food (no meat or fish)
- Quality inspector glass, glass products
- Quality inspector grains, seeds
- Quality inspector machines, appliances, vehicles
- Quality inspector metal goods, metalware
- Quality inspector noise pollution (licences, inspection)
- Quality inspector rubber, plastic products
- Quality inspector vehicles, machines
Check your pay
- A Manual Tester in Quebec in information and communication with 4 years or less experience earned minimum $43.40 and maximum $58.30 per hour in 2020.
- A Manual Tester in Saskatchewan in information and communication with 4 years or less experience earned minimum $54.20 and maximum $73.50 per hour in 2020.
- A Manual Tester in Quebec in information and communication with 4 years or less experience earned minimum $51.00 and maximum $69.50 per hour in 2020.
Job Responsibilities
- Inspecting and testing products, parts and materials for conformity with specifications and standards
- Grading and classifying natural textile fibres for spinning and winding
- Discarding or rejecting products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications
- Analyzing and interpreting blueprints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures
- Notifying supervisors and other personnel of production problems, and assisting in identifying and correcting these problems
- Recording inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded
- Marking items with details such as grade and acceptance or rejection status
- Measuring dimensions of products using instruments such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers
- Analyzing test data and making computations as necessary to determine test results
Take the Salary Survey
- Product grader or tester (not in foods and beverages)
- Quality inspector agricultural products
- Quality inspector cattle, meat, fish
- Quality inspector computer equipment
- Quality inspector electrical equipment or eletronic components
- Quality inspector food (no meat or fish)
- Quality inspector glass, glass products