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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.7 - using hand tools S6.7.4 - using precision hand tools Use jewellery equipment
Description
Handle, modify, or repair jewellery-making equipment such as jigs, fixtures, and hand tools such as scrapers, cutters, gougers, and shapers.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 11 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 12 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Filigree makerFiligree makers create a delicate kind of jewellery, usually of gold and silver, called a filigree. They solder together tiny beads, twisted threads or a combination of the two…
- Jewellery designerA Jewellery Designer is a skilled artisan who creates unique pieces of jewelry, combining artistic vision with craftsmanship to produce wearable art. They design rings, necklaces, …
- JewellerJewellers fabricate and repair various jewelry articles. They create models from wax or metal, ready for the lost wax casting process. They may undertake the casting process (place…
- Precious stone setterPrecious stone setters use tools to insert diamonds and other gemstones into jewellery settings according to specifications. The setting of the gemstone depends on its size and its…
- Jewellery assemblerJewellery 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 s…
- Precious stone cutterPrecious stone cutters use cutting machines and tools to cut or carve diamonds and other gemstones according to diagrams and patterns while considering different specifications. Th…
- Jewellery mounterJewellery mounters create the framework for a piece of jewellery, on which the precious stones are added to later. Other titles The following job titles also refer to jewellery…
- GoldsmithGoldsmiths design, manufacture and sell jewellery. They also adjust, repair and appraise gems and jewellery for customers using experience in the working of gold and other precious…
- Jewellery repairerJewellery repairers use specialised hand tools to carry out adjustments and repairs to all types of jewellery pieces. They resize rings or necklaces, reset gems, and repair broken …
- Jewellery polisherJewellery polishers ensure that finished jewellery pieces are cleaned by customer demand or prepared for sale. They may also perform minor repairs. They use either hand tools …
- SilversmithSilversmiths design, manufacture and sell jewelry. They also adjust, repair and appraise gems and jewelry. Silversmiths are specialized in working with silver and other precious me…
Optional for
- EnamellerEnamellers embellish metals such as gold, silver, copper, steel, cast iron or platinum by painting it. The enamel they apply, consists of coloured powdered glass. Working condition…
Related skills
- Clean jewellery pieces
- Create jewellery
- Ensure conformance to jewel design specifications
- Jewellery processes
- Develop jewellery designs
- Adjust jewellery
- Select gems for jewellery
- Heat jewellery metals
- Select metals for jewellery
- Record jewel processing time
- Cultured pearls
- Repair jewellery
Last updated on February 18, 2026
