Job Description:

• 1) Controls kiln to fire greenware, or decorations or glazes on ware, to specified hardness: Gives directions to helper in preparing firebox, building up door, and lighting fires.

• 2) Determines level and uniformity of oven temperature by observing, through peepholes, changes in shape and color of pyrometric cones, rings, and saggers.

• 3) Regulates temperature by adjusting drafts and fuel feed.

• 4) May be designated according to type kiln fired as Firer, Round Kiln; Firer, Tunnel Kiln; or type of ware fired as Decorating-Kiln Operator; Firer, Bisque Kiln; Firer, Glost Kiln.