Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 1991

• J - Occupations Unique to Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities
• J1 - Machine Operators in Manufacturing
• J12 - Machine Operators and Related Workers in Metal and Mineral Products Processing

J125 - Inspectors and Testers, Mineral and Metal Processing

Occupations in this unit group are primarily concerned with inspecting, grading, sampling or testing mineral ores, metals, cement or similar products resulting from mineral or metal processing.

• Example Titles

  • Brick and tile inspector
  • Casting tester, mineral and metal processing
  • Cement plant, inspector
  • Checker, core, mineral and metal processing
  • Clay products grader
  • Coke inspector, mineral and metal processing
  • Core checker, mineral and metal processing
  • Core inspector, mineral and metal processing
  • Fibreglass tester
  • Glass inspector
  • Hardness inspector, mineral and metal processing
  • Hardness tester, mineral and metal processing
  • Heat-treating inspector, mineral and metal processing
  • Inspector, core, mineral and metal processing
  • Inspector, hardness, mineral and metal processing
  • Iron-pellet-hardness tester
  • Metal hardness tester
  • Metal processing inspector
  • Mineral sampler
  • Molten metal sampler
  • Ore grader, mineral and metal processing
  • Ore sampler, mineral and metal processing
  • Plant sampler, mineral and metal processing
  • Sampler, mineral and metal processing
  • Sheet steel inspector
  • Steel tester
  • Tester, casting, mineral and metal processing
  • Tester, hardness, mineral and metal processing

• Exclusion

  • Nondestructive testers (See C161 Nondestructive Testers and Inspectors)