A professional who fabricates and repairs jewelry articles, such as rings, brooches, pendants, bracelets, and lockets. Responsibilities include:

• Forms model of article from wax or metal, using carving tools.
• Places wax model in casting ring, and pours plaster into ring to form mold.
• Inserts plaster mold in furnace to melt wax.
• Casts metal model from plaster mold.
• Forms mold of sand or rubber from metal model for casting jewelry.
• Pours molten metal into mold, or operates centrifugal casting machine to cast article.
• Cuts, saws, files, and polishes article, using handtools and polishing wheel.
• Solders pieces of jewelry together, using soldering torch or iron.
• Enlarges or reduces size of rings by sawing through band, adding or removing metal, and soldering ends together.
• Repairs broken clasps, pins, rings, and other jewelry by soldering or replacing broken parts.
• Reshapes and restyles old jewelry, following designs or instructions, using handtools and machines, such as jeweler's lathe and drill.
• Smooths soldered joints and rough spots, using hand file and emery paper.
• May be designated according to metals fashioned as goldsmith; platinumsmith; silversmith i.