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Where a pottery and porcelain caster can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a pottery and porcelain caster already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as caster of pottery and porcelain, pottery caster, porcelain caster, pottery and porcelain moulder, pottery and porcelain ware caster, pottery and porcelain molder, caster of pottery and porcelain ware.

Craft and related trades workers 42 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: production potter, 63%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
production potter 63% covered hand brick moulder 40% covered plastic heat treatment equipm… 33% covered metal annealer 32% covered absorbent pad machine operator 32% covered pottery and porcelain cas… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from pottery and porcelain caster, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a pottery and porcelain caster already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A pottery and porcelain caster needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • conform with clay thickness communication, collaboration and creativity
  • tend jigger machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • tend pug mills working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • materials used in stoneware manufacturing engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • materials in porcelain manufacturing engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • types of pottery material arts and humanities
  • extract products from moulds information skills
  • use personal protection equipment assisting and caring
  • monitor automated machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • set up the controller of a machine working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a pottery and porcelain caster does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Pottery and porcelain caster is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a pottery and porcelain caster’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.