Bench Workers, Jewelry

Cut, file, form, and solder parts for jewelry.

Job Task

• Marks and drills holes in jewelry mounting to center stones according to design specifications.
• Positions and aligns stones and metal pieces and sets, mounts and secures item in place, using setting and hand tools.
• Manually rotates mold to distribute molten material and prevent formation of air pockets in mold.
• Marks, engraves or embosses designs on metal pieces, such as castings, wire, or jewelry, following samples, sketches, or other specifications.
• Plates articles, such as jewelry pieces and clock and watch dials with silver, gold, nickel, or other metals.
• Examines assembled or finished product, using magnifying glass or precision measuring instruments, to ensure conformance to specifications.
• Repairs existing jewelry mountings to reposition jewels or adjust mounting.
• Sands inside mold pieces, using emery cloth and chalkdust.
• Assembles and secures mold sections used to cast metal articles and pieces.
• Brushes, buffs, cleans and polishes metal items and jewelry pieces, using jeweler's tools, polishing wheel, and chemical bath.
• Operates machines, such as centrifugal-casting, routing, and lathe, to fabricate casting molds, metal parts or wax models of products.
• Weighs completed pieces to determine deviation from specifications and records weight and processing time on production records.
• Designs and fabricates molds, models and machine accessories, and modifies hand tools used to cast metal and jewelry pieces.
• Researches and analyzes reference materials and consults with interested parties to develop new or modify existing products.
• Cuts, trims, shapes and smoothes jewelry stones, pearls, and metal pieces, using abrasives, grinding stone and power and hand tools.
• Weighs, mixes and melts metal alloys or material and pours molten material into mold to cast models of jewelry.
• Forms, joins, or assembles metal pieces, articles, or wire, using soldering iron, gas torch, and hand tools.
• Disassembles mold casting from metal or jewelry workpiece and places work piece in water or on tray to cool.

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