Skills
40 skills are associated with this occupation.
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Overview
Jewellery engravers cut lettering, symbols and ornamental designs into jewellery, usually after sketching or transferring the design and preparing the surface for precise engraving.
In job descriptions, look for hand engraving tools, engraving templates, etched work, jewel design specifications, cleaning engraved areas, dimensions, restoration, stones, metals and processing records.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Jewellery engravers work at a bench with small valuable pieces, drawings, templates and hand or machine engraving tools. The task is to place lettering or ornament accurately, cut it cleanly and finish the engraved area without damaging the jewel.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include engraving technologies, template selection, design transfer, workpiece preparation, dimension calculation, inspection and cleaning. Specialisms may include laser engraving, restoration, etching chemicals, enamelling or stone-set jewellery.
Salary context
Salary context depends on jewellery value, engraving complexity, restoration work, customer design responsibility, hand-skill level, equipment used and whether time and weight records are part of the workflow.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward senior bench work, jewellery design, restoration, laser engraving, workshop coordination or specialist finishing for gold, silver, pearls, stones and decorative metalwork.
Good to know
Check whether vacancies specify hand engraving, machine engraving, templates, restoration, customer designs, metals, stones, etching, cleaning and inspection. Small wording changes can signal very different workshop expectations.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
jeweller (7313.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/375137f7-5fc2-424e-9f63-d7ff4441c11e |
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| ESCO code | 7313.1.3 |
| ISCO group | 7313 |
| Concept type | Occupation |