Production potter
Also searched as: Alfarero
Code 7314.2
What does a Production potter do?
Production potters process and form clay, by hand or by using the wheel, into end-products pottery, stoneware products, earthenware products and porcelain. They introduce the already shaped clay into kilns, heating them at a high temperature in order to remove all the water from the clay.
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Essential skills
Knowledge
- ceramics glazes
- materials in porcelain manufacturing
- materials used in stoneware manufacturing
- quality standards
- types of pottery material
Skills and competences
- apply glaze coating
- ensure equipment availability
- manage different ceramic firing techniques
- inspect quality of products
- handle different pottery materials
- shape clay
- operate a ceramics kiln
- paint decorative designs
- prepare balls of clay
- polish clay products
- use abrasive wheel
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