Job Description:

• 1) Assembles and repairs silverware, such as coffee pots, tea sets, and trays: Anneals workpiece in gas oven for prescribed time to soften metal for reworking.

• 2) Wires parts, such as legs, spouts, and handles, to body to prepare unit for soldering.

• 3) Solders parts together and fills in holes and cracks with silver solder, using gas torch.

• 4) Hammers out deformations and levels and sets bottoms, using dollies, hammers, and tracing punches.

• 5) Shapes and straightens damaged legs, lids, and spouts with pliers.

• 6) Restores dented embossing on articles, using hammers and punches.

• 7) Pierces and cuts open design in ornamentation, using hand drill and scroll saw.

• 8) Glues plastic separators to handles of coffee and teapots.

• 9) May operate lathe to form articles of silverware out of silver or plated sheet, according to sketches.

• 10) May hammer metal into shape and solder seams to make handles and spouts.

• 11) May work with metals other than silver, such as pewter, brass, chromium, and nickel.