Apprentice Craft Technician: Ceramics

Level 3 Craft Technician Apprenticeship - Ceramics

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https://skillsengland.education.gov.uk/apprenticeships/st0919-v1-1

Craft technicians provide technical support to ensure new or existing items, are made or restored by hand. They are designed, developed, and created in line with company and client requirements. Increasingly, the integration of digital technologies across this sector will support production processes. While still retaining unique craft or skill qualities through hybrid manufactured and hand produced or handmade production.

Craft technicians must adhere to the organisation’s confidentiality requirements and understand basic copyrighting and intellectual property arrangements. Working with discretion, taking positive action in response to feedback, being solution focused, and maintaining awareness of the bigger picture. Including budget and broader resource constraints and environmental impacts and ways to reduce these, are essential to a craft technician approach.

Core Training

Duty 1 Make products or component parts of products by hand in line with the settings quality standards, confidentiality policies and intellectual property requirements.

Duty 2 Utilise technology as an enabler to handmake or hand produce items within social, cultural, economic, technological and environmental contexts impacting your chosen specialism.

Duty 3 Follow agreed plans, designs or brief to aid the successful creation of a specified handmade or hand produced products within time and cost constraints.

Duty 4 Maintain equipment and the workspace, and store tools in line with the settings standards and health and safety requirements.

Duty 5 Research and develop sustainable production techniques, processes and the use of recycled and sustainable materials

Duty 6 Manage expectations by maintaining regular communication and delivering effective project management, budget tracking, troubleshooting, project delivery and timekeeping.

Duty 7 Order or recommend materials and tools in line with the settings procurement policies and processes. Following stock management procedures as needed to achieve value for money.

Duty 8 Record and control materials, items, stock, products and suitably store these to maintain their fitness for use.

Duty 9 Utilise technology to communicate, market and sell handmade or hand produced items effectively.

Duty 10 Provide excellent and inclusive service and relationship management to a diverse range of customers, creative teams, clients and colleagues.

Duty 11 Package present or handover products in line with the settings standards, procedures an customer, client or colleague requirements.

Ceramicist Training:

Duty 12 Make, service, restore, and or conserve ceramic items for customers, clients public or private collections.

Duty 13 Manage the planning or design process for hand-made ceramic products.

Duty 14 Work with customers and clients to understand their requirements. Creating technical or other drawings and plans (by hand or digital) for the product as needed.

Duty 15 Create samples or prototypes to assist in the creation of hand-made ceramic products.