Job Description
Job Title: High End Ceramist
Dept: Porcelain Department
Reports To: Porcelain Dept. Supervisor
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Prepared By: Human Resources Dept.
Prepared Date: May 19, 2013
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Read and interpret doctors prescription and preferences, following exact instructions.
- Reject received work from previous departments that is unfit to continue.
- Ensure case is completed in time to ensure other departments meet the Red Date.
- Applies porcelain powder over prosthesis frameworks or copings using brushes and spatulas.
- Applies porcelain in layers to arrive at the precise shape and color of a tooth or teeth.
- Load newly constructed teeth into porcelain furnaces in order to bake the porcelain onto the metal framework.
- Adjust the shape and color of product with subsequent grinding and addition of porcelain to achieve a sealed finish.
- Fix or add porcelain to contacts or occlusion as needed.
- Stain and Glaze.
- Follow the Code of Safe Work Practices.
- Other duties as may be assigned.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
One year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
CDT Preferred, but not required.
Language Skills:
Working ability to read handwritten English in order to read doctors prescriptions as well as ability to read and understand laboratory slips and laboratory terminology.
Mathematical Skills:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, including the metric system, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel and be able talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.