A professional who performs variety of duties to assist calcine-furnace tender in baking pigments to bring out color. Respnsibilities include:

• Scoops dry blend of pigments from drums into clay saggers (pigment containers) and stacks saggers on bed of kiln.
• Positions kiln bed on hydraulic lift, using forklift.
• Moves controls of hydraulic lift to raise kiln bed into overhead kiln and secures bed in kiln.
• Removes bed from kiln on signal from calcine-furnace tender and empties saggers of calcined pigments into drum.
• Weighs and tags drum and moves it to storage area, using handtruck.
• May load saggers of dry blend onto revolving track of circular kiln for continuous-calcination process.
• Performs other duties as described under helper master title.