pottery and porcelain caster
ISCO: 7314. Skills: 42. Essential: 12.
Essential skills
- conform with clay thickness
- extract products from moulds
- inspect quality of products
- materials in porcelain manufacturing
- materials used in stoneware manufacturing
- monitor automated machines
- set up the controller of a machine
- tend jigger machines
- tend pug mills
- troubleshoot
- types of pottery material
- use personal protection equipment
Supporting skills
- alumina ceramic
- apply glaze coating
- casting processes
- ceramic ware
- ceramics glazes
- check quality of raw materials
- construct moulds
- extract materials from furnace
- fill moulds
- form moulding mixture
- handle different pottery materials
- keep records of work progress
- load materials into furnace
- monitor conveyor belt
- monitor end-product drying process
- monitor stock level
- operate a ceramics kiln
- operate drying blowers
- operate forklift
- pack fragile items for transportation
- paint decorative designs
- perform green machining
- perform machine maintenance
- polish clay products
- prepare production prototypes
- record production data for quality control
- report defective manufacturing materials
- tend clay extrusion machine
- tend tumbling machine
- work ergonomically