Other Stationary Plant and Machine Operators

How to become a Glass and Ceramics Plant Operator

Official title: Glass and Ceramics Plant Operators

Glass and ceramics plant operators operate glass and ceramic furnaces, kilns and other equipment.

Main tasks

Operate glassmaking furnaces to melt and fuse glass
Operate equipment to coat and temper glassware; grind, drill, frost, decorate, wash or polish glass and glass products; draw molten glass into glass fibre; and make flat glass by the float process
Operate equipment that presses and blows molten glass to form containers such as bottles and jars
Operate equipment to mix clay and water to form pottery products; operate glaze making and grinding equipment
Operate equipment to fire pottery and porcelain and bake bricks and tiles

Average pay: NT$516,000 a year
Demand for Machine operators and assemblers jobs is projected at about 1,647,000 in 2024 and about 1,698,000 in 2030. (+3.1%)
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Average pay is NT$516,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).

Demand for this job family is projected to change 3.1% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026