Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that blends and melts materials, such as clay, flint, and lead oxides, to make glaze: Weighs specified amounts of ingredients on scale according to batch card.

• 2) Dumps weighed materials into mixing machine.

• 3) Sets timing device on mixer for specified period and starts mixer.

• 4) Observes mixture for conformance to coloring specifications.

• 5) Empties batch from machine into bin and transports bin to frit furnace, using lift truck.

• 6) Dumps materials into furnace and turns gas and air valves to heat furnace to specified temperature.

• 7) Shuts off furnace and turns wheel to pour fused mass from furnace into water sump to undergo crystallization.

• 8) Drains off water and shovels crystals into bin.

• 9) Transports bin to storage area, using handtruck.