Where a hand brick moulder can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a hand brick moulder already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Hand brick moulders create unique bricks, pipes, and other heat-resistant products using hand moulding tools. They create moulds according to specifications, clean and oil them, insert and remove the mixture from the mould. Then, they let the bricks dry in kiln before finishing and smoothing the end products.
Also known as handmade-brick moulder, heat resistant product molder, molder of handmade bricks, brick mould maker, hand pipe molder, handmade-brick molder, tile mould maker, tile molder, tile moulder, brick mold maker, brick molder, brick maker.
Craft and related trades workers 28 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: moulding machine operator, 41%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A hand brick moulder needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.
- remove mixture excess handling and moving
- adjust clay burning level working with machinery and specialised equipment
- prevent casting adhesion handling and moving
- monitor end-product drying process working with machinery and specialised equipment
- types of pottery material arts and humanities
- select mould types handling and moving
- fill moulds handling and moving
- extract products from moulds information skills
- maintain moulds handling and moving
- quality standards business, administration and law
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a hand brick moulder does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- pottery and porcelain caster 40% covered · difficulty 57.8
- candle maker 39% covered · difficulty 58.8
- doll maker 37% covered · difficulty 59.8
- foundry operative 31% covered · difficulty 65.1
- sectional belt mould assembler 31% covered · difficulty 64.9
- moulding machine operator 27% covered · difficulty 68.1
- mouldmaker 27% covered · difficulty 68.1
- brick and tile caster 27% covered · difficulty 67.9
- precast moulder 23% covered · difficulty 70.4
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Hand brick moulder is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a hand brick moulder’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.