United Kingdom · Craft (Blacksmithing)
Craft technician
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Also advertised as Heritage Craft Technician
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1From this job to a course
The qualifications matched to this job
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The units you would start with
Built for Craft technician
3 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.
- Understanding and Using Blacksmithing and Construction Skills Level 3
- Producing fibrous plasterwork on conservation or restoration projects in the workplace Level 3
- Hanging wallcoverings (standard and foundation papers) in the workplace Level 2
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Your first Future Fluency module is free. After that, your AI tutor is £70 a month.
2What this role really is
This occupation is found in a range of settings including specialist craft or creative businesses, design studios, production workshops. These may include theatre, film, restoration and conservation businesses, training establishments, cultural institutions, heritage sites, corporate businesses, and the natural environment. Employers are typically known to be micro businesses and SMEs. However, craft technicians can occasionally be found in larger organisations in the public, private and charity sectors, for example producing theatres. Craft technicians may also be freelancers or operate as sole traders once their skills and experience are sufficient. The broad purpose of the occupation is to make, service, restore, conserve or realise individual items, these may be handmade or hand produced. They can be achieved working with a range of materials such as textiles, modulable and rigid materials, paper, glass, clay etc. Craft technicians provide technical support to ensure new or existing items, are made or restored by hand. They are designed, developed, and created in line with company and client requirements. Increasingly, the integration of digital technologies across this sector will support production processes. While still retaining unique craft or skill qualities through hybrid manufactured and hand produced or handmade production. Craft technicians must adhere to the organisation’s confidentiality requirements and understand basic copyrighting and intellectual property arrangements. Working with discretion, taking positive action in response to feedback, being solution focused, and maintaining awareness of the bigger picture. Including budget and broader resource constraints and environmental impacts and ways to reduce these, are essential to a craft technician approach.
- Produce specialist hand and anvil tooling for forged artefacts
- Create tooling for press/power hammer applications
- Forge decorative elements/motifs according to specifications
- Join and finish decorative elements/motifs as per specifications
- Apply heat treatment processes and recognize their effects on metals
- Identify and control common production faults
- Select and combine forging techniques for complex artefacts
- Adhere to safe working practices
- Interpret the design brief and production schedule
- Identify hazards in the production environment
- Mark out from setting out details and cutting lists
- Produce a range of objects in both straight and elevated forms
- Construct wooden framed vehicles, shafts, and wheels
- Measure accurate workplace dimensions
- Record and store calculations and measurements
- Utilize marking and testing tools correctly
- Apply appropriate joints based on construction methods
- Address and rectify problems as they arise
3The pathway
The pathway
Getting in, in the UK
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Craft technician (Level 3) — Skills England standard ST0919
4Pay and demand
Pay & demand
The figure is the median for full-time employees in the ONS occupation this job title codes to (Electrical and electronics technicians), from the April 2025 survey, about six months old when published, as ASHE always is. It is that occupation's middle, not this role's. Half earn more.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Understanding and Using Blacksmithing and Construction Skills, worked against Craft technician.
Applied to your work in Craft technician
This unit aims to equip learners with the skills to apply blacksmithing construction methods to create functional and aesthetic pieces, including working with dissimilar metals. Learners will produce complex forged elements and motifs, and create accurate workshop drawings to guide the forging process. They will also evaluate the structural integrity of their constructed pieces.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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