POTTERTY SPECIALIST - G5 PART TIME

POTTERTY SPECIALIST - G5 PART TIME

Salary

$19.00 Hourly

Location

Columbus, GA

Job Type

Part Time/Temporary/Intermittent

Job Number

2026-00000449

Department

Parks & Recreation

Division

Pottery Shop

Opening Date

07/30/2026

Closing Date

8/30/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

• Description
• Benefits
• Questions

Major Duties and Responsibilities

This position plans and conducts pottery classes for adults, children, seniors and therapeutic recreation participants.

• Plans and conducts pottery classes for adults, children, seniors and therapeutic recreation participants.
• Performs back-up work for pottery, such as loading and firing kilns, making clay and glazes, equipment and studio maintenance.
• Assists in scheduling.
• Completes special assignments as required; researches and prepares reports; develops programs; coordinates, plans, and schedules special events.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of general pottery procedures. Knowledge of operation in studio area of responsibility.
• Knowledge of state, federal and local laws, rules and regulations.
• Skilled in work-related computer software applications.
• Skilled in problem solving, decision-making and organization, setting priorities, meeting critical deadlines, and following up assignments with a minimum of directions.
• Skilled in operating and routine maintenance of general pottery machines, such as kilns, glazes, slab rollers, extruders, puggers, pottery wheels and arts and crafts supplies.
• Skilled in oral and written communication and in interpersonal relations.

Minimum Educational and Training Requirements

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.

Physical Requirements

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee frequently lifts light and occasionally heavy objects, climbs ladders, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing - maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing - ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crawling - moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
• Crouching - bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling - perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping - applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling - picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 - perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 - receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling - bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting - raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity - ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing - use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching - extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion - substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking - expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Stooping - bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 - shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
• Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
• Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.

There are no benefits associated with this position.

01

Which best describes your level of education? (You will be asked to provide documentation)

• No High School Diploma
• GED
• High School Diploma
• Technical College
• Some College
• Associates Degree
• Bachelors Degree
• Masters Degree
• Doctorates Degree

02

Do you possess a valid drivers license?

• Yes
• No

03

How many years of work experience do you have with pottery techniques including hand building, wheel throwing, raku and glazing?

• None
• 0 - 1 year
• 1 - 3 years
• 3 - 5 years
• 5 years or more

04

Please list and explain any work experience you have in operating and routine maintenance of general pottery machines, such as kilns, glazes, slab rollers, extruders, puggers, pottery wheels and arts and crafts supplies.

05

Please list and explain any work experience you have in planning and conducting pottery classes for adults, children, seniors and therapeutic recreation participants.

Required Question

Employer Columbus Consolidated Government

Address City Hall

1111 1st Avenue

Columbus, Georgia, 31901

Phone 706-225-4059

Website http://www.columbusga.gov/HR