Profession jewellery assembler

Jewellery assemblers assemble jewelry parts to form different types of jewellery such as bracelets, necklaces or earrings. They grip links with pliers or position the link in the slot of a linking ring, twist link joints open using pliers, attach all parts together and repair broken chains.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Jewellery processes

  Materials and processes involved in creating jewellery items like earrings, necklaces, rings, brackets, etc.

Skills

• Use jewellery equipment

  Handle, modify, or repair jewellery-making equipment such as jigs, fixtures, and hand tools such as scrapers, cutters, gougers, and shapers.

• Smoothen rough jewel parts

  Smoothen rough parts of pieces of jewellery using hand files and emery paper.

• Assemble metal parts

  Align and arrange steel and metal parts in order to assemble complete products; use the appropriate hand tools and gauges.

• Repair jewellery

  Make jewellery repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewellery back together, and replacing broken or worn-out clasps and mountings.

• Adjust jewellery

  Reshape jewellery mountings.

• Clean jewellery pieces

  Clean and polish metal items and pieces of jewellery; handle mechanical jewellery-making tools such as polishing wheels.

• Select metals for jewellery

  Select and purchase precious metals and alloys to use in jewellery pieces

• Assemble jewellery parts

  Assemble and thread different jewellery parts together such as pearls, locks, wire, and chains by soldering, clamping, welding or lacing the materials.

• Mount stones in jewels

  Mount gemstones in pieces of jewellery closely following design specifications. Place, set and mount gemstones and metal parts.

• Ensure conformance to jewel design specifications

  Examine finished jewellery products to ensure that they meet quality standards and design specifications. Use magnifying glasses, polariscopes or other optical instruments.

• Select gems for jewellery

  Select and purchase gems to use in jewellery pieces and designs.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB