How do they match: Potters, Manufacturing

  • Potters, Manufacturing

  • Pot Maker
  • Potter
  • Pottery Manufacturer
  • Pottery Machine Operator
  • Manufacturing Potter
  • Production Potter
  • Studio Potter

  • Operate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter's wheel to process clay in manufacture of ceramic, pottery and stoneware products.

  • Attach handles to pottery pieces.
  • Design spaces to display pottery for sale.
  • Mix and apply glazes to pottery pieces, using tools, such as spray guns.
  • Operate gas or electric kilns to fire pottery pieces.
  • Pack and ship pottery to stores or galleries for retail sale.
  • Perform test-fires of pottery to determine how to achieve specific colors and textures.
  • Position balls of clay in centers of potters' wheels, and start motors or pump treadles with feet to revolve wheels.
  • Prepare work for sale or exhibition, and maintain relationships with retail, pottery, art, and resource networks that can facilitate sale or exhibition of work.
  • Teach pottery classes.