Ceramic products can be both functional and decorative. The ceramic products industry produces items such as bathroom sinks and accessories, roof capping tiles, pipes, kitchenware, decorative ceramics and floor and wall tiles for bathrooms, kitchens and commercial uses.

You can work in a ceramic products plant as a technician, operating machines to combine and process ingredients or finish products. You will supervise machine operations and adjust pressures, temperatures, tension, and other controls.

You will use computers and a wide variety of equipment such as sandblasters, airwipes, brick core tips, extruders, presses, kilns as well as cutting, grinding and polishing machines.

If you have a more creative flair, you could work as a potter or ceramicist, moulding clay into mugs, bowls and tableware using techniques such as wheel throwing, moulding or hand building, followed by glazing and firing.

The ceramics industry offers great careers to anyone who will enjoy making practical and/or functional products, working in a hands-on environment.