Jeweler designing, fabricating, and repairing jewelry and precious metal items, utilizing tools and techniques to ensure quality and precision in craftsmanship
Experience
Jeweler and Precious Stone and Metal Worker
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Cleaned and polished metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths
Created jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones
Examined assembled or finished products to ensure conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments
Made repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings
Computed costs of labor and materials to determine production costs of products and articles
Positioned stones and metal pieces, and set, mounted, and secured items in place, using setting and hand tools
Designed and fabricated molds, models, and machine accessories, and modified hand tools used to cast metal and jewelry pieces
Skills
Checking & Planning
Designing jewelry and decorative objects, Measuring substances, Measuring product dimensions
Hands-On Work
Cutting industrial materials, Building production molds, Reshaping small metal components, Heating materials, Polishing finished products, Smoothing metal surfaces