Description
[Freelance position] One permanent freelance technician required to work Sundays in a pottery studio in Hammersmith central London from 2025.
Ceramics Classes London are looking for one dedicated technician to work Sundays from 9am to 7pm as a technician and course teacher from 2pm-5pm.
- Rate of pay is: £15 per hour for teaching tasters and doing techician duties £25 per hour teaching courses (2pm-5pm Sunday Course)
- Duties: Cleaning ceramics studio: hoovering/mopping floor/cleaning surfaces/blinds/pottery wheels/tables/stools/emptying the sink trap.
- Technical: loading Cromartie Skutt kilns, operating kilns (training given) batt wash shelves remove glaze off shelves.
- Members: recording sales of clay for members/ answering queries about kiln firings.
- Teaching taster: to beginners small groups (maximum 6 people) adult/children.
- Teaching the 2pm-5pm course: to beginners small groups aged over 15 yrs old (maximum 10 people) adults/teenagers.
- Essential skills: experience of using clay and ability to throw on the pottery wheel is required. Good communication/time management skills- liaise with teachers to arrange prep for lessons and ensure work is fired on time ready for glazing sessions. Punctual and reliable with the ability to work as part of a team- working together to teach corporate team building events/parties-ensure that work is labelled correctly with name, date and cleaning after events.
- Knowledge and understanding: of how to mix glazes using recipes adhere to good practice with health and safety- wear small glaze particle dusk mask and latex gloves when handling hazardous materials. Unload clay delivery from pallet must be able to lift 12.5kg weight (bags of clay) and store clay neatly in the store room on shelving. Recycling of clay- wedging- labelling and storing neatly. label tasters when ready to collect.