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0-5 years of experience
Managed the day-to-day operation of the shop.
- Managed shop inventory, ordered all supplies, scheduled staff work hours and coordinated all shipping and receiving of product.
- Resolved all customer service issues/complaints.
- Responsible for all quality control of shop work.
- Remained active at the bench doing custom work (waxes and fabrication), setting jobs and repairs.
0-5 years of experience
- Cleaned castings, assembled jewelry and repaired special orders
- Assisted model makers, in all phases of model making
- Diamond setting in prongs, bead, channel and semi-channel
0-5 years of experience
- Educated new jewelers on Tiffany & Co. standards and work order/administrative procedures
- Co-lead department with three other jeweler/trainers
- Trained new jewelers on basic jeweler techniques such as sawing, filing, fabricating and laser welding
- Maintained and ordered supplies and tools
- Cleaned castings, utilized laser welder
- Communicated daily with supervisor and manager to ensure production goals and order fullfillment
6-10 years of experience
- Handled all facets of stone setting, fabrication, and repair.
- Handled custom and special order work involving wax carving, mold making and casting.
- Traveled to store locations as bench jeweler for remount promotions.
- Consulted with customers at remount promotions on design.
- Promoted to remount jeweler in less than one year since hire.
- Our team made its weekly sales goals 95% of the time during my tenure as bench jeweler.
0-5 years of experience
- Managed the gold, silver and stainless steel department
- Promoted to include work on and repair on designer bags and belt buckles
- Supervised production of stainless steel work for outside vendors
6-10 years of experience
- Provided exceptional support to clientele in person/ via telephone; including trouble-shooting and imparting knowledge of various products and techniques available.
- Procured confidence of repeat clientele via personalized service/ product knowledge gained.
- Managed office and studio personnel, assigning and verifying execution of daily tasks.
- Managed inventory of some 8000 product types and mastered brand familiarity.
- Assisted with and often directed special projects.
- Received/ processed/ billed orders.
- Ascertained properties of fine and base metals/ increased metal forging skills.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for opening and closing store
- Coordination of all work from five major accounts
- Performed minor watch repairs
- Accountable for all repairs of any difficulty level, including minor fabrication
- Responsible for computer engraving and pearl stringing
- Acted as a liaison between customers and sales staff when technical questions arose
- Assisted with estimating repairs and custom work
- Partially responsible for ordering supplies to complete jobs
0-5 years of experience
Filed all records.
- Wrote out customer receipts.
- Aided customers with jewelry
- Answered customer phone calls
10+ years of experience
More than 5-6 years of experience in custom jewelry manufacturing.
- More than 12 years of experience in polishing, repairs, and diamond setting.
- In depth knowledge of repairing fine jewelry.
- Worked directly with customers to convert their ideas into an attractive design.
- Managed the daily activities in the studio.
- More than 8 years of experience in jewelry sales.
6-10 years of experience
- Weld metal pieces (gold and platinum).
- Assembly necklaces, chains, bracelets and rings from a rusty and unprocessed status.
- Cleaning metal pieces of fine jewelry straight out of the casting room.
- Make settings from a metal piece for three stone rings.
- Soldering settings to ring shanks among all around soldering of jewelry.
- Regular repairs using an ultra tech laser.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for diamond setting, soldering, polishing and cleaning on a daily basis
- Repairing, reshaping, sizing and restyling jewelry by replacing broken parts or using hand tools and machines.
- Ability to evaluate and recommend stone layouts in metal for new products.
- Maintain a minimum of stones breakage and loss which consistently producing superior diamond and color stone setting.
- Smoothing soldered joints and rough spots, using hand file and emery paper. Arranging jewelry pieces into specified design, softening metal by heating with gas torch, and shaping, using hammer and die.
0-5 years of experience
Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
- Size Rings, soldering piece jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings.
- Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using polishing wheels, and chemical baths.
- Compute costs of labor and materials in order to determine production costs of products and articles.
- Bilingual Customer Service.
0-5 years of experience
- Demonstrated skillful craftsmanship as a metal smith by creating jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, brass, copper and precious or semiprecious stones
- Ensured all pieces were properly finished by cleaning and polishing jewelry pieces using jewelers’ tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths
- Learned to properly use various jewelers’ tools such as a soldering torch, high power flex shaft and hand tools
- Bought and sold jewelry, in addition to serving as an agent between buyers and sellers at trade shows
0-5 years of experience
Bench Jeweler
- Complete majority of basic repairs; ring sizing, chain repair, soldering, and watch battery replacement
- Responsible for keeping bench and polish areas clean
- Act as a mediator between lead jeweler and customers
- Build relationships and make sure all customers were satisfied and treated with respect
- Responsible for independently buying scrap gold
- Polish all jewelry repairs once completed and rhodium plate customer’s pieces while they wait
- Work as a valuable member of the sales team
0-5 years of experience
- Assisted customers in product selection and answer any questions about material, production, or style.
- Resolved customer complaints regarding sales and service.
- Represented company at trade shows to promote products and services.
- Trained new employees in sales as well as jewelry repair and design.
- Created jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, and precious or semiprecious stones.
- Made repairs, such as resizing rings, soldering, cutting stones to replace those lost or damaged, replacing mountings.
- Worked with customers to design a variety of pieces from simple pendants to wedding jewelry.
- Computed costs of labor and materials in order to determine production costs of custom designs.
- Selected and acquire metals and gems for custom designs.
0-5 years of experience
Proficient in diamond setting
- Experience with flush, hand cut bead, prong, shared prong, and modified fish tail settings
- Advanced laser repair and assembly
- Extreme detail to quality control
- Knowledge of tool modification and use of microscope
- Practicality with 18K Yellow Gold, 18K Rose Gold, and Platinum
- Understand CODC terms
- Practice work safe and productive habits as well as precautions
10+ years of experience
Bench Jeweler
- Repair/Create all types of jewelry (gold, platinum) rings, bracelets, etc.
- Invoice stores, communicate re: estimated work needed, and cost
- Maintain stock in shop and place orders to maintain inventory
0-5 years of experience
Repaired and maintained equipment or parts using hand tools
- Cut and shaped metal into jewelry pieced using cutting and carving tools
- Soldered pieces of jewelry together to enlarge or reduce size
- Repair, reshape, and restore jewelry
10+ years of experience
Jewelry Designer & Repair Specialist
- Main objectives pertained creating individual customized or revision on jewelry items from and for clients.
- Providing the utmost precise customer care towards achieving client satisfaction.
- Providing jewelry appraisal values for individual clients ensuring to address any concerns or questions presented.
10+ years of experience
- Assist Designer by performing variety of tasks as a bench jeweler.
- Utilize jewelry tools & flex shaft to perform cleaning, repair, wax carving mold making and creating jewelry from scratch
- Solder jump rings, added patina, polished and attached lobster claw clasps
- Assisting in finished work, such as cutting, polishing, engraving, soldering or setting stones in metal, such as gold and silver necklaces, bracelets, and rings.
- Organize studio area and making trips to Diamond District for materials and supplies.
0-5 years of experience
- Assist women in updating their style and current wardrobe with beautiful and affordable High Fashion jewelry
- Demonstrate stunning jewelry combinations and present style tips during jewelry
- Help schools, daycares and other groups raise funds through jewelry sales and fundraisers
- Provide excellent customer service to hostesses and clients
- Create communications and promotional materials to both clients and colleagues
6-10 years of experience
Jeweler
- Completion of all repairs, including sizing, chain repair and prong repair in all precious metals
- Stone setting, colored stones and diamonds including fancy shapes
- Fabrication in all precious metals as well as casting and some wax making
6-10 years of experience
Create gold and sterling silver jewelry that conforms to the business owner’s and customers’ design aesthetics and quality standards.
- Set precious and semi-precious stones into custom bezel settings.
- Interact with customers in a professional, service-oriented manner both in person and on the phone.
- Order inventory, materials, and services from vendors.
- Create appealing displays of the merchandise.
- Maintain cleanliness in the gallery and workshop spaces.
- Create and update the employees’ work calendar.
- Assist employer with payroll.
- Prepare outgoing mail and packages.
0-5 years of experience
Bench Jeweler
- Designing rings, pendants, bracelets, toe rings, anklets, and earrings
- Performing jewelry, chain, clasps and ring repairs
- Re-tipping prongs, setting stones
- Performing channel and platinum rebuilds
- Assembling jewelry
0-5 years of experience
- Sales and customer service
- Pay bills and make deposits
- Conduct research to find customers the best available prices for diamonds and jewelry
- Prepare packages for shipping and receive and disseminate orders as needed
- Minor repairs and jewelry finishing
6-10 years of experience
- This home based business includes organizing and marketing home based shows by developing a client base through networking and self promotion.
- Coordinate new merchandise and business inventory.
- Maintain current customer database and recruit new jewelers.
- Keep current on all fashion trends as necessary.
0-5 years of experience
- Purchased Bridge Jewelry from home office for resale at customer’s homes at a jewelry “show” in a “party” atmosphere.
- Utilized strong communication skills and customer service experience to build a sizable clientele.
- Demonstrated the necessary drive and good use of organizational and financial skills to develop a successful home business.
10+ years of experience
Jeweler
- Jewelry design following specific costumer directions, pictures, sketches and/or drawings
- Jewelry making according costumer specifications
- Jewlry repair in all facets done in platinum, gold or silver.
- Jewlry repair done in fron of customers
- Antique jewelry repair and restoration
- Stone setting for repair work
- Gold warch assembling, movement installment and removal
- Casting in gold and silver
0-5 years of experience
Artisan Jeweler
- Produce handmade jewelry at a high level of quality and quantity to meet customer needs
- Develop the production process for new items and teach to team members
- Multitask to meet high demands during peak seasons
10+ years of experience
Jewelry design
- Appraisals: gold, silver, and precious metals
- Gold and silver jewelry manufacturing
- Stone setting
- Repairs: rings, necklaces, bracelets, and earrings
- Resized rings
- Soldered Jewelry parts together
6-10 years of experience
Unloading stock.
- Ensuring products and all showcased merchandise is in the correct area.
- Providing assistance to consumers and answering their questions.
- Making sure area is clean at all times.
10+ years of experience
Gold identification.
- Size gold rings.
- Size silver rings.
- Repair rings, bracelets, necklace.
- Assisted in other areas of the warehouse when needed.
- Assisted in other local warehouses in the area.
- Team player
6-10 years of experience
Fine jewelry
- Hand made pieces in silver, 18KT and platinum
- Model making in wax
- Laser welding
0-5 years of experience
- Established a large clientele
- Market Premier Designs jewelry across Texas
- Manage all aspects of a small business independently
10+ years of experience
Self-employed business owner
- Retail sales
- Complete fabrication of custom designed jewelry
- Lost wax casting, wax carving, stone and diamond setting
6-10 years of experience
- Market jewelry through direct sales and home shows.
- Provide excellent customer service.
- Order merchandise and supplies.
- Support and work within company policies and procedures.
- Attend monthly trainings.
0-5 years of experience
Clean and repair jewelry
- Resize rings
- Set stones in jewelry
- Pay attention to very close detail
- Successfully relay information to customers
10+ years of experience
Bench Jeweler
- Ring Sizing, Stone Setting, Casting, Re-tipping prongs
- Creating Stone Mounts, Watch Repair, Ring Repair
- Jewelry Repairs
- Customer Service
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for repair and servicing clients’ jewelry.
- Ensure jewelry is repaired to correct metal, color match and size match.
- Perform repair to damaged jewelry up to the level required.
- Create and maintain the document of the labor and other charges regarding the repairs.
- Ensure quality of the repaired jewelry by inspecting it.
- Responsible for training the other associate.
- Organize and maintain equipments and all bench tools.
- Identify all precious metal and gems.
- Keep bench tools and working area in a tidy order.
- Retain records of scrap gold and gems for recovery.
- Performed other duties as assigned by the management.
6-10 years of experience
- Designing and creation of custom jewelry.
- Wax carving, castings and rubber molds.
- Meet with customers to create sketches of different pieces.
- Intricate repairs.
- Four years experience with Rofin Laser Welder.
- Hand fabrication.
- Management training.
- Responsible for running repair shop when Manager is not present.
0-5 years of experience
Oversee fabrication, repair and design for all stores
- Commission private pieces
- Build out and maintain shop space
- Order material and ship all finished work
0-5 years of experience
Oversee the operations of a retail jewelry manufacturing shop
- Creating Custom Jewelry pieces
- Jewelry and Watch repair
- CAD Jewelry Design
- Operate a Laser Welder
10+ years of experience
Bench Jeweler /Goldsimth
- Basic + Stone Setting
- Ring Sizing
- Retipping Prong
- Torch Soldering on Gold, Silver, and other Metals
- Polishing
- Change Watch Battery and Band
- Embossed Letters, Plates, and Earrings Names
- Jewelry Cleaning, Jewelry Repair and Jewelry Saw Cut
6-10 years of experience
Machine work.
- Jewelry Stamping.
- Jewelry design and manufacturing.
- Custom Jewelry design.
- Work with gold, silver and semiprecious stones.
- Wholesale jewelry manufacturing.
- Tradeshow presentation and display.
- Process wholesale orders for department stores and resellers.
- Jewelry repair.
- Make rings, bracelets, necklace, earrings & broaches and multiple other types of jewelry.
0-5 years of experience
Bench Jeweler
- Casting
- Finishing
- Polishing
- Soldering
- Ring sizing
- Repairs
- Mold making
- Wax carving
- Jewelry CAD
Jeweler Duties and Responsibilities
Generally, jewelers have a set of general tasks that they are expected to complete as part of their job. Based on our review of job listings, these core tasks are:
Design and Create Jewelry Jewelers create models of jewelry using wax or computer-aided design software. They should have the knowledge to cast the models in metal, shape the metal to hold diamonds or gems, solder the metal together, and insert diamonds or gems.
Examine and Grade Diamonds and Gems Knowing the four Cs – cut, color, clarity, and carat weight – for examining and grading diamonds and gemstones is a key duty of jewelers who are gemologists. Once gemologists have examined and graded a diamond, they write a report certifying its quality.
Clean and Polish Jewelry Jewelers use various cleaning chemicals and polishing agents and tools to clean and polish various types of jewelry. Because some of the chemicals may be caustic, jewelers also need to know how to use cleaning chemicals safely.
Repair Jewelry Jewelers calculate the costs of labor and material for new parts and repairs to customers’ jewelry. They also successfully repair various styles of jewelry, including resetting stones.
Appraise Jewelry Experienced jewelers determine the value of pieces of jewelry and write appraisals by researching the market and referring to relevant references, such as auction catalogs and jewelry reference books.
Jeweler Skills and Qualifications
Jewelers often handle caustic chemicals and lasers, so they must work carefully. Employers also seek applicants with these abilities:
- Attention to detail – jewelry and the pieces and parts that comprise it are often small and varied, so jewelers should have keen attention to detail
- Nearsightedness – because jewelers often work with small pieces or parts of jewelry, their vision should be excellent
- Manual dexterity – tasks such as repairing clasps, inserting stones, and soldering metal all require jewelers to be good with their hands
- Knowledge of jewelry trends – because jewelers are often responsible for designing and crafting jewelry, they should have knowledge of current jewelry trends
- Interpersonal skills – jewelers consult with customers in various ways – for design and repair requests as well as questions about specific pieces for sale
- Artistic ability – jewelers are often called upon to design and craft jewelry, so artistic ability is a must. Jewelers may also be asked to restyle pieces of jewelry, so they must be able to visualize how a piece would look with stones or rearranged pieces
Jeweler Education and Training
A high school diploma or equivalent is the minimum education requirement for most jewelers. Some trade or vocational schools offer programs lasting 90 days to a year that include courses on gems and metals, resizing and repairing jewelry, and using CAD software. On-the-job training for jewelers is also common. Prospective jewelers can work as a in a jewelry store or as a clerk in a jewelry repair shop and gain experience from a bench jeweler or gemologist.
Jeweler Salary and Outlook
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) lists the median annual salary for jewelers as $37,960, with a median hourly wage of $18.25. A jeweler in the 10th percentile earns approximately $22,240 a year (or $10.69 an hour), while the highest paid in the field make $65,140 a year ($31.32 hourly). According to the BLS, 37,700 jewelers are employed in the United States. Projected employment growth for this sector is -7 percent through 2026.
Helpful Resources
Researching a career thoroughly is the best strategy to help you decide if it’s the right move for you. To help, we’ve provided some of the top industry resources for jewelers below:
Jewelers of America – founded in 1906 by jewelers to advance the professionalism and ethics of the industry, the organization still stands true to its original goals
American Gem Society – the AGS is a nonprofit trade association for jewelers that offers education, accreditation, gemological standards, and relevant research
The Jeweler’s Directory of Gemstones – written by Judith Crowe, expert gemstone dealer and designer, this guide with full-color photographs, informative text, and annotated drawings offers instruction on how to recognize different grades of stones
The Jeweler’s Bench Book – written by Charles Lewton-Brain, this book is full of reference information that will guide the reader in setting up a
bench jeweler operation. Photos and information about working benches are included
Troubleshooting for Jewelers: Common Problems, Why They Happen and How to Fix Them – author Frieda Munro wrote this problem-solution guide as a comprehensive resource for jewelers. It includes 150 diagnostic charts for troubleshooting reference. Additionally, it details various tricky situations that beginning and intermediate jewelers might encounter, along with ways to solve them