Occupation Atlaspottery and porcelain caster
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5f617498-da0d-454a-9658-5e02d28a4bd7
pottery and porcelain caster
Pottery and porcelain casters fill moulds with clay to cast pottery and porcelain wares. They pour excess slip out of the mould when needed, drain moulds, remove the cast from the mould, smooth the casting surfaces to remove marks and place the castings on boards to dry.
Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCARealistic · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.92
- C Conventional3.69
- A Artistic2.16
- I Investigative1.64
- E Enterprising1.19
- S Social1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Potters, Manufacturing (51-9195.05): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (12)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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
Optional (30)
- 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
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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