A professional who tends kiln that develops color of pigments used in making paints and glass enamels. Respnsibilities include:

• Moves controls to set automatic heat regulator that maintains specified temperature in kiln.
• Adjusts gas burners in kiln, using handtools, and lights pilot flames and burners.
• Raises kiln bed or signals calcine furnace loader to raise kiln bed, containing pigments, into kiln and to remove bed from kiln after specified time.
• May fill and empty saggers (pigment containers).
• May tend crusher that breaks calcined chunks of pigment into smaller particles.
• May tend auxiliary equipment, such as coaler, conveyor systems, pump, and rotary vacuum filter.