Potters, Manufacturing

Also called: Glazer, Jiggerman, Potter

Career Cluster: Manufacturing
What they do:
Operate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter's wheel to process clay in manufacture of ceramic, pottery and stoneware products.
On the job, you would:
  • Operate gas or electric kilns to fire pottery pieces.
  • Mix and apply glazes to pottery pieces, using tools, such as spray guns.
  • Raise and shape clay into wares, such as vases and pitchers, on revolving wheels, using hands, fingers, and thumbs.
KNOWLEDGE

Engineering and Technology
  • design
  • product and service development
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
  • manufacture and distribution of products
Arts and Humanities
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
Business
  • customer service
SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIES

Hand and Finger Use
  • keep your arm or hand steady
  • hold or move items with your hands
Controlled Movement
  • quickly change the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat
  • use your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down
Ideas and Logic
  • create new and original ideas
  • group things in different ways
PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Attention to Detail
  • Independence
  • Initiative
  • Integrity
  • Persistence
  • Achievement/Effort
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Inventory management software
  • Inventory control software
EDUCATION


some college or high school diploma/GED
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JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $61,050.00
Median: $45,690.00
Low: $34,950.00
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