A professional who inspects finished glassware for conformance to quality standards. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines glassware for defects, such as cracks, chips, reams (wavy distortions), discolorations, and blisters.
• Verifies weight and dimensions of glassware, such as height, circumference, thickness, and bottle throat openings, using templates, jigs, micrometers, and fixed gauges; or monitors automatic gauging equipment that measures glassware.
• Examines glass for annealing defects, using polariscope.
• Removes glassware to unjam automatic equipment.
• Throws rejects in cullet (waste glass) bin.
• May record production, number of rejects, and lehr temperatures.
• May pack acceptable glassware in cartons, close and seal cartons, and stencil information on carton, using brush and ink.
• May turn controls to synchronize automatic gauging equipment with conveyor speed.